USN · DD
Evans
Photos and infoFletcher-class destroyer, DD-552. Named for Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. On 11 May 1945 she and Hugh W. Hadley were on Radar Picket Station 15, northwest of the Okinawa transport area. Four planes hit her together. She lost her engines. The crew saved her. She was not repaired.
| Class | Fletcher class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | DD-552 |
| Builder | Chickasaw, Alabama |
| Launched | 1942-10-04 |
| Commissioned | 1943-12-11 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. Decommissioned 7 November 1945. Sold for scrap, 11 February 1947. |
| Armament (class) | Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
U.S. Navy. USS Evans (DD-552) underway at sea on 5 October 1944 (80-G-263751).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Command
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · radar picket; four planes hit her on 11 May; not sunk
