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AD-24 Everglades

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Bravo - Yankee - Quebec
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - National Defense Service Medal
Arcadia Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down, 26 June 1944, under a Maritime Commission contract at Todd-Pacific Shipyards Inc., San Pedro, CA.
  • Launched, 28 January 1945
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group, 15 May 1947
  • Commissioned USS Everglades (AD-24), 25 May 1951
  • Decommissioned in 1970, at Charleston, S.C.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 24 May 1989
  • Laid up at the NISMF, Philadelphia, used as a support ship
  • Final Disposition, transferred to MARAD, 2 July 1990 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,165 t.(lt) 16,635 t.(fl)
    Length 465'
    Beam 69'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 19.4 kts.
    Complement 826
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, four 40mm guns
    Propulsion Geared Turbines, 8,500shp
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    Everglades 111k Everglades (AD-24) underway, date and place unknown. Gary Adams ETCS USN Ret
    USS Everglades, 1968-1970
    Everglades 78k Everglades (AD-24) in the Mediterranean Sea, circa October 1968 Photo by Jerry Search
    Everglades 93k Everglades (AD-24) with six destroyers moored in a nest on her port side, date and place unknown. Ships present from inside to outside: Fiske (DDR 842); The Sullivans (DD 537); Hawkins (DDR 873); Myles C. Fox (DDR 829); William R. Rush (DDR 714); and Robert A. Owens (DDE 827).
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1956.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Everglades 117k Everglades (AD-24) with an unidentified destroyer and Ross (DD-563) at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA., date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1956.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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