USS Eversole (DE-404)

Casualty List

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.