USS Eversole (DE-404)
Navy | US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Pennant | DE 404 |
Built by | Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 15 Sep 1943 |
Launched | 3 Dec 1943 |
Commissioned | 21 Mar 1944 |
Lost | 28 Oct 1944 |
Loss position | 10.18N, 127.37E in Leyte Gulf |
History | |
Sunk on 28
October 1944 in position 10º18'N, 127º37'E after being torpedoed by
Japanese submarine I-45 80 died in the sinking and all of her 136 survivors which includes the Commanding officer Lt Cmdr George Elliott Marix; were wounded, they were rescued by USS Richard S. Bull. |