USS Eversole (DD-789)
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USS Eversole underway on 6 July 1951 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Eversole |
Namesake | John T. Eversole |
Builder | Todd Pacific Shipyards |
Laid down | 28 February 1945 |
Launched | 8 January 1946 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. S. R. Eversole |
Commissioned | 10 May 1946 |
Decommissioned | 11 July 1973 |
Stricken | 21 September 1973 |
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Motto | One Step Ahead |
Honors and awards | 7 battle stars (Korea) |
Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 11 July 1973 |
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Turkey | |
Name | Gayret |
Namesake | Gayret |
Acquired | 11 July 1973 |
Stricken | 1995 |
Identification | Hull number: D-352 |
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Status | Museum ship at İzmit |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
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USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Eversole (1915–1942), a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway. She later served in the Turkish navy from 1973 to 1995 as TCG Gayret (D-352) and is now a ship museum.
Eversole was launched on 8 January 1946 at the Tacoma Washington shipyard of Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. S. R. Eversole, mother of Lt. (j.g.) Eversole; and commissioned on 10 May 1946. The Eversole was one of the final three ships built in Tacoma by Todd-Pacific before closure of the Tacoma yard.