Wreck of USS Eversole (DE-404)
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Second World War 1939-1945, military, shipwreck, destroyer (ship), United States Navy
Laid down in September 1943 at the Brown Shipbuilding Yard in Houston TX as the 37th member of the John C. Butler Class of Destroyer Escorts for the US Navy, USS Eversole commissioned into service with the US Atlantic Fleet in March 1944. Remaining in Atlantic waters long enough to complete her shakedown and initial training cruises, the Eversole and her crew shaped a course for the Panama Canal and joined the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in June 1944. Spending the next four months alternating between convoy escort and anti-submarine patrols and training, the Eversole was assigned to a Escort Carrier Task Force bound for Morotai in early August. Providing anti-aircraft and anti-submarine protection to her charges as they carried out airstrikes to support ground forces through August and into October, the Eversole withdrew to the open ocean North of New Guinea and linked up with a powerful Naval convoy bound for the Philippine Islands.
In action once again screening her Carriers as they sent aircraft aloft to support the Invasion of Leyte on October 20th, the Eversole's crew settled in and waited for the eventual Japanese response which while slow to materialize became increasingly coordinated and savage as October drew to a close. Taking no direct role in the enormous Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Eversole and her crew nonetheless assisted in the recovery of downed pilots and assisted in screening withdrawing battle-damaged ships from the Battle off Samar on the 25th and 26th of October before receiving orders to escort a Manaus-bound convoy of empty merchant and troopships. Standing out of Leyte Gulf shortly after dark on the 28th of October, Eversole and her crew took their position on the North side of their convoy as it steamed into waters now known to be full of Japanese Submarines making their presence felt across the assembled American Fleet.
Conducting a routine escort through the midnight hour and into the early morning of the 29th, Eversole's sonar crews continued their passive scanning for enemy submarines and were rewarded with a probable contact shortly before 0230hrs. Immediately activating her sonar ping, sonarmen confirmed their contact with an enemy Submarine and were passing along its range and bearing to her CIC when the first of two torpedoes fired by the HIJMS I-45 slammed into her Port side. Rolling heavily from the pair of detonations, the Eversole went dead in the water and immediately began to settle by the Stern as seawater flooded her hull, prompting her Captain to order her crew to abandon ship as his radiomen sent out distress signals with the last of the ships onboard power. Remaining on the surface for roughly fifteen minutes after the initial torpedo impact, the USS Eversole sank Stern-first at this location at 0245hrs on October 29th, 1944, taking an unknown number of her crew with her to the bottom and leaving the large majority of her crew scattered in the open ocean. Further casualties in the loss of Eversole were incurred as her still-armed depth charges went off as she plunged into the depths, but her fellow escorts were eventually able to rescue 139 of her 215 crew.
For her actions in the Second World War, USS Eversole received two Battle Stars.
www.navsource.org/archives/06/404.htm
In action once again screening her Carriers as they sent aircraft aloft to support the Invasion of Leyte on October 20th, the Eversole's crew settled in and waited for the eventual Japanese response which while slow to materialize became increasingly coordinated and savage as October drew to a close. Taking no direct role in the enormous Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Eversole and her crew nonetheless assisted in the recovery of downed pilots and assisted in screening withdrawing battle-damaged ships from the Battle off Samar on the 25th and 26th of October before receiving orders to escort a Manaus-bound convoy of empty merchant and troopships. Standing out of Leyte Gulf shortly after dark on the 28th of October, Eversole and her crew took their position on the North side of their convoy as it steamed into waters now known to be full of Japanese Submarines making their presence felt across the assembled American Fleet.
Conducting a routine escort through the midnight hour and into the early morning of the 29th, Eversole's sonar crews continued their passive scanning for enemy submarines and were rewarded with a probable contact shortly before 0230hrs. Immediately activating her sonar ping, sonarmen confirmed their contact with an enemy Submarine and were passing along its range and bearing to her CIC when the first of two torpedoes fired by the HIJMS I-45 slammed into her Port side. Rolling heavily from the pair of detonations, the Eversole went dead in the water and immediately began to settle by the Stern as seawater flooded her hull, prompting her Captain to order her crew to abandon ship as his radiomen sent out distress signals with the last of the ships onboard power. Remaining on the surface for roughly fifteen minutes after the initial torpedo impact, the USS Eversole sank Stern-first at this location at 0245hrs on October 29th, 1944, taking an unknown number of her crew with her to the bottom and leaving the large majority of her crew scattered in the open ocean. Further casualties in the loss of Eversole were incurred as her still-armed depth charges went off as she plunged into the depths, but her fellow escorts were eventually able to rescue 139 of her 215 crew.
For her actions in the Second World War, USS Eversole received two Battle Stars.
www.navsource.org/archives/06/404.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eversole_(DE-404)
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Coordinates: 10°9'59"N 127°27'59"E
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