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USS Edsall (DD-219), named for Seaman Norman Eckley Edsall (1873-1899), was a Clemson-class destroyer of the United States Navy.

Edsall was laid down by the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania on 15 September 1919, launched on 29 July 1920 by Mrs. Bessie Edsall Bracey , sister of Seaman Edsall and commissioned on 26 November 1920.

Edsall served with the United States Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters and with the Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines, was at BalikpapanBalikpapan is a city (population 309,234 as of 1990) on the island of Borneo, in Indonesia. It is the second largest city in the province of East Kalimantan. It is located on an inlet of Makassar Strait, about 115 km from Samarinda, the capital city of Ea in BorneoBorneo (including the Kalimantan provinces of Indonesian, Sabah and Sarawak of Malaysia, and Brunei) is an island, the third largest island in the world, located at the center of the Malay archipelago and of Indonesia. Borneo is considered part of the geo when the Japanese attacked Pearl HarborPearl Harbor is a complex embayment on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a US Navy deep water naval base: headquarters of the US Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on 7 December 194 on 7 December 1941, searched for survivors from the British battleship HMS Prince Of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse off Kuantan in Malaya on 10 December 1941, and sank the enemy Japanese submarine I-124 while in company with three Australian corvettes off Darwin in Australia on 20 January 1942, the first US destroyer to sink a full-sized enemy submarine in World War II.

Edsall was attacked by the enemy Japanese battleships Hiei and Kirishima, two cruisers of Cruiser Division 8 and two bombers from the aircraft carrier Soryu south of Java on 1 March 1942 and sank with the loss of her entire crew.