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USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. DD850 Destroyer Museum
at Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts.
History of USS Eversole DD789 The second Eversole was launched 8 January 1946 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Seattle, Wash., sponsored by Mrs. S. R. Eversole, mother of Lieutenant (junior grade) Eversole, and commissioned 10 May 1946, Commander B. P. Ross in command. Eversole arrived at San Diego, her home port, 6 October 1946, and in the years prior to the Korean war, twice sailed to the Far East for duty with the 7th Fleet, patrolling off China and.Japan. She sailed from San Diego 1 May 1950 for another such tour, and thus was in the Orient upon the opening of the war. Until 8 February 1951, when she returned to San Diego, she screened the fast carrier task forces as they launched air strikes against North Korean targets. During her second tour of duty in the Korean War, from 27 August 1951 to 10 April 1952, Eversole bombarded Hungnam, Wonsan, and other points along the east coast of Korea, and served in the Blockading and Escort Force, with ships of the navies of Great Britain, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and the Republic of Korea. From 17 November 1952 to 29 June 1953, she served a similar tour of duty. From 1954 through 1962, Eversole made an annual deployment to the Far East, serving on the Taiwan Patrol, exercising off Japan, Okinawa, and in the Philippines, and visiting a wide variety of western Pacific ports. In both 1957 and 1968, she made her outward bound passage by way of Australia, and in all of these tours, made an important contribution to the power for peace of the 7th Fleet. During her periods of training and preparation for deployment on the west coast, Eversole often visited ports of the Pacific Northwest, and on occasion voyaged to the Hawaiian Islands. Stricken September 21 1973 from US service and sent to Turkey July 11 1973, where she was renamed Gayret. Stricken in 1995 and preserved as a museum at Izmit Turkey. Eversole received seven battle stars for Korean war service. Copyright ©2001 |
