USS Evarts (DE-5)
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The Evarts (DE-5) was a destroyer escort (Destroyer Escort) of the US Navy and the lead ship of her class .
She ran on December 7, 1942 in the shipyard Boston Navy Yard from the stack as BDE-5 , and was named after Lieutenant Milo Burnell Evarts named. It was planned to hand over the ship to the British Royal Navy . It then remained in the US Navy and was commissioned on April 15, 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander CB Henrique, USNR .
After submarine defense - and radar -Training in the Chesapeake Bay , which was Evarts as a convoy - escort used. Here she carried the division flag of the Escort Division 5 . After five convoys to Casablanca , she drove from Norfolk to Bizerte on April 22, 1944 . Two days before she reached her destination port, her convoy suffered a heavy torpedo attack from enemy torpedo planes . She successfully fulfilled her task as an anti-aircraft ship by shooting down many enemy planes .
During the return journey from this convoy, on May 29, 1944, the Evarts was withdrawn from convoy service to help the two torpedoed ships, Block Island (CVE-21) and Barr (DE-576) . By the time she reached the specified position , the Block Island had already sunk. The Evarts took the Barr in tow and drove with her to Casablanca. A second convoy escort to Bizerte was uneventful, as was the convoy to Palermo and the three convoy escorts to Oran .
After completing her convoy duties on June 11, 1945, she subsequently served as a target ship for submarines in New London until September 11, 1945. The Evarts was decommissioned on October 2, 1945 and on July 12 Wrecked in 1946.
The Evarts received a Battle Star for service in World War II .
Technical specifications
| displacement | 1140 ts |
| length | 88 m |
| width | 10.7 m |
| Draft | 2.5 m |
| drive | 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with 6000 HP on 2 screws |
| speed | 21 kn (39 km / h) |
| Range | 4150 nm |
| team | 156 (ranks and officers) |
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