USS Eversole (DE-404)
A wartime picture of USS Eversole (DE-404) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Eversole |
| Namesake | John Thomas Eversole |
| Builder | Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas |
| Laid down | 15 September 1943 |
| Launched | 3 December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 21 March 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk by I-45, 28 October 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 2 propellers |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS Eversole (DE-404) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Lieutenant (junior grade) John Thomas Eversole, (a naval aviator who was killed in the opening phases of the Battle of Midway), she was the first of two U.S. Naval vessels to bear the name. The vessel was torpedoed and sunk on 28 October 1944.