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USS Evans (DE1023)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - J - E - F
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Turning Point"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: National Defense Service Medal
Second Row: Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal w/ 1 star - Vietnam Service Medal w/ 2 stars - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Specifications:
Class: Courtney
Type: SCB No. 72 / 1954 - 55
Number in Class: 10
Displacement: 1,314 tons (light), 1,877 tons (full)
Length: 308' (wl), 314' 6" (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 19' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 26 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Complement: 12 / 161
Guns: 4 - 3"/50 (76mm) Mk33 Guns (2x2)
ASW Weapons: 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos
Radars: AN/SPS-5 (surface), AN/SPS-6C (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-4
Fire Control Systems: Mk63 Gun FCS, Mk105 Underwater Battery FCS
Evans (DE1023) Building and Operational Data:
  • 8 April 1955: Keel laid at the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., Seattle, Wash.
  • 14 September 1955: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. H. Hendrickson
  • 14 June 1957: Commissioned, Lcdr H. F. Wiley in command, assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet Destroyer Force as a unit of Escort Squadron 3 at San Diego, Cal.
  • 1 February 1968: CortRon 3 disestablished, transferrred to DesRon 31 (CruDesFlot 9)
  • September 1968: Assigned to the Naval Reserve Force (NRF) as a unit of ResDesRon 27 at Seattle, Wash.
  • April 1971: NRF assignment changed to DesRon 37-NRF at Seattle, Wash.
  • 3 December 1973: Decommissioned
  • 12 December 1973: Stricken
  • 16 August 1974: Sold for scrapping
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    Evans 70k Ernest Edwin Evans was born on 13 August 1908 at Pawnee, Oklahoma and graduated from Central HS in Muskogee before enlisting in the US Navy on 29 May 1926. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1927, graduating with the class of 1931. He served in USS Colorado, USS Roper, USS Rathburne, USS Pensacola, USS Chaumont, USS Cahokia, and USS Blackhawk. During World War II, he commanded USS Alden (DD211) and USS Johnston (DD557).

    During the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944, he led Johnston and her crew in an attack on a greatly superior Japanese battleship and cruiser force. In this action, which materially contributed to the defeat of the Japanese counter-offensive against the Leyte invasion, Commander Evans and his ship were lost. Ernest E. Evans was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in the Battle off Samar.

    USS Evans (DE1023) was the first ship named in his honor.    (US Navy photo #NH 63499 from the US Naval Historical Center showing Lcdr Evans at the commissioning ceremony for USS Johnston)    		 Navsource
    Evans 69k 1957: San Diego - shortly after commissioning. (These three photos ©Morper Pictures, San Diego, Cal.) Bill Allen
    Evans 49k
    Evans 62k
    Evans 159k September 1957: San Francisco Bay (© Allied Photographers, San Francisco, Cal.) Robert M. Cieri
    Evans 34k circa 1959 - 1960: USS Lewis (DE535), USS Currier (DE700), Evans, and USS Wiseman (DE667) -
    Evans 146k April 1960: at Yokosuka, Japan - Tied up in company with USS Philip (DD498), USS Renshaw (DD499), and USS Epperson (DD719) alongside. (Photo taken by Dr. Samuelson) Lt. Erv Samuelson, MC, USN
    USS Wexford County (LST1168)
    Evans 89k 4 March 1961: San Diego, Cal. - "Enemy Sub Killers" Nestled alongside USS Kearsarge (CVS33) at San Diego, are three modern destroyer escorts and three destroyers of the ComCruDesPac force. The carrier and her group of 'greyhounds' make up a Navy Hunter-Killer Group now operating in the Pacific. Included are (outboard in) USS Bridget (DE1024), Evans, USS Hooper (DE1026) all of CortRon Three; USS Lofberg (DD759), USS Taussig (DD746) and USS John A. Bole (DD755), all of DesDiv 72." (Official U.S. Navy Photograph from the Hoyt "Bud" Colburn Collection) Carol Edgemon Hipperson
    www.carolhipperson.com
    Evans 279k 1962: Ship portrait taken by a ComCruDesPac photographer off San Diego prior to the yard period mentioned in the photo below. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph from the collection of Pearl Harbor Survivor, Hoyt "Bud" Colburn, who was a Chief Yeoman when he served in Evans.)

    NOTE: Carol is the author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor & World War II in the Pacific (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martins Press, 2008); ISBN-10 031238694X and ISBN-13 978-0312386948. Check on www.carolhipperson.com for availability.
    Evans 119k 1962: Ship portrait taken off Point Loma, shortly after leaving the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. While in the shipyard the after 3" gun mount was removed and the DASH helicopter deck was added without a DASH Hanger. Dick Adams (1962-1963)
    Evans 252k 1966: Subic Bay, Philippine Islands - Moored to USS Piedmont (AD17), in a nest with USS Hooper (DE1026), USS Jenkins (DD447), and USS Samuel N. Moore (DD747), all to starboard. Lee Noland
    Evans 103k July 1966: Subic Bay, Philippine Islands - Nested with USS Stickell (DD888) and USS Haverfield (DE393) alongside USS Klondike (AR22) (Photo © Richard Leonhardt) Richard Leonhardt
    Evans 137k 1967: Western Pacific - DASH operations in the Pacific. Darryl Baker
    Evans 138k 1967: Western Pacific - Typhoon damage to forward gun tub aboard Evans. The ship was in Yokosuka when this photo was taken. The ship lost this gun tub again off the coast of Oregon in 1968 on her way to Seattle.
    Evans 48k 1970: in the Pacific NW when she was in reserve status. -
    Evans 50k 1970: in the Pacific NW when she was in reserve status. -
    Evans 110k 1972: Seattle WA - Attached is a scan of a picture that I took of USS Evans tied up in Seattle at Pier 90/91. I was alongside with HMCS Port de la Reine at the time for a weekend port visit and thought that the Evans was a very pretty ship. Michael Harvey
    Lt.(N) Retired
    Canadian Navy
    Additional Memorabilia
    Ship's Patch
    Evans
    Courtesy of
    Darryl L. Baker, PNCM,
    USNR (ret)    		 Ship's Lighter
    Evans
    Courtesy of
    Mike Smolinski    		 Ship's Lighter
    Evans
    Courtesy of
    Mike Smolinski    		 Wardroom Painting
    Evans
    Courtesy of
    Darryl L. Baker, PNCM,
    USNR (ret)
    View the USS Evans (DE1023) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website.
    Evans' Commanding Officers
    Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
    14 June 1957 - 10 July 1959 Lcdr. Howard F. Wiley
    10 July 1959 - 27 September 1960 Lcdr. Edward Lull Cochrane Jr.
    27 September 1960 - 10 May 1962 Cdr. John D. Owens
    10 May 1962 - 05 June 1963 Lcdr. John J. Shanahan Jr. (later Radm.)
    05 June 1963 - 13 March 1965 Cdr. Lyle Oliver Armel II
    13 March 1965 - 11 April 1966 Lcdr. Roy Frederick Stadler Jr.
    11 April 1966 - 11 January 1968 Lcdr. Richard Finlay Donnelly (later Radm.)
    11 January 1968 - 26 June 1969 Lcdr. Donald George Loos
    26 June 1969 - 20 August 1971 Lcdr. James J. Roberts
    20 August 1971 - 20 January 1973 Lcdr. Everett Jackson Dennis
    20 January 1973 - 03 March 1973 Lcdr. Gerald Mahlon Higbee
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Escort Squadron (CortRon) 3 Association
    22 - 27 April 2008 at the
    Best Western Seven Seas, San Diego CA
    Reunion Contact Name: Jack Price
    Address:144 Five Mile Road / Suffolk VA 23434-6932
    Phone:(757) 255-0505
    E-mail: Jack Price
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    USS Evans Web Pages
    CortRon Three Portal
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