Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

United States Navy — Destroyer escort class

Evarts-class destroyer escort

Evarts class

The class in numbers

  • 105 Planned
  • 97 Completed
  • 8 Cancelled

Design and service

Type
Destroyer escort
Navies
United States Navy 66
Royal Navy 1
Preceded by
N/A
Succeeded by
Buckley-class destroyer escort
Operators
Republic of China
Builders
  • Boston Navy Yard, MA
  • Mare Island Navy Yard, CA
  • Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA
  • Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, full load
1,360 long tons (1,382 t)
Length
88.09 m (289 ft) OA
Speed
19 knots (35.2 km/h, 21.9 mph)
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)
Armament
  • Main guns: 3 × 3 inch/50 guns in open mounts
  • Anti-aircraft guns: 7 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns
  • Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
  • Depth Charges: Up to 160 depth charges were carried.

Roster

Holding 67 of the 97 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
HMS Bazely K311 1945 Scrapped 1946
HMS Goodson 1943 Transferred 1944
HMS Inglis K566 1943 Scrapped 1946
HMS Lawford (K514) K514 1943 Sunk 1944
USS Andres 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Austin (DE-15) DE-15 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Bebas 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Brackett 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Brennan DE-13 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Burden R. Hastings 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Cabana 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Canfield 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Carlson 1943 1946
USS Charles R. Greer 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Cloues 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Connolly 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS Crouter 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Crowley 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS Decker 1943 Sunk 1954
USS Deede 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Dempsey (DE-26) DE-26 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Dionne 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Dobler 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Doherty 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Doneff 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Duffy (DE-27) DE-27 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Edgar G. Chase 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Edward C. Daly 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Eisele (DE-34) DE-34 1943 Scrapped 1948
USS Elden 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Emery 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Engstrom 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Evarts 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Fair 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Fleming (DE-32) DE-32 1943 Scrapped 1948
USS Gilmore 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Greiner 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Griswold (DE-7) DE-7 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Halloran 1944 Scrapped 1947
USS Harold C. Thomas 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS John J. Powers 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS John M. Bermingham 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS Lake 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS LeHardy 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Lovering (DE-39) DE-39 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Lyman 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS Manlove 1943 Scrapped 1948
USS Martin (DE-30) DE-30 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Mason (DE-529) DE-529 1944 Scrapped 1947
USS Mitchell 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS O’Toole (DE-527) DE-527 1944 Scrapped 1946
USS Rall 1944 Scrapped 1947
USS Reynolds 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Sanders (DE-40) DE-40 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Sederstrom 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Seid 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Smartt 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Stadtfeld 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Steele 1943
USS Tisdale (DE-33) DE-33 1943 Scrapped 1948
USS Walter S. Brown 1943 Scrapped 1946
USS Whitman 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Wileman 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS William C. Miller 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Wintle (DE-25) DE-25 1943 Scrapped 1947
USS Wyffels F-21 1943 Scrapped 1972
USS Wyman 1943 Scrapped 1947

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