This article is about the fictional US Navy destroyer escort. For the man for whom it was named, see Josephus Daniels. The USS Josephus Daniels was a US Navy destroyer escort during the Second Great War. In early 1942, she was placed under the command of Lieutenant Sam Carsten. Under his command, she performed many dangerous missions, such as shore bombardment of Confederate held Virginia, landing Marines on Ocracoke Island, delivery of arms to both Irish and Cuban rebels, and patrolling the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to slow the flow of weapons to the Canadian rebels.