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Photo # NH 69333:  USS Evans anchored off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.

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USS Evans (Destroyer # 78, later DD-78), 1918-1940

USS Evans, a 1060-ton Wickes class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine. She was commissioned on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, and in June-August 1919 operated in European waters. After brief service off Central America, beginning in November 1919 Evans was based at San Diego, California, as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. She was active along the west coast of North and South America until October 1921 and was placed out of commission at San Diego in late May 1922.

Evans returned to active duty in April 1930 and operated in the eastern Pacific until December 1930, when she began more than a year of Naval Reserve training service at New York. The destroyer went back to the Pacific in March 1932, serving there until the end of March 1937, when she was again decommissioned. The outbreak of World War II in Europe brought about her recommissioning in late September 1939. The following December Evans began neutrality patrols out of Key West, Florida.

In late September 1940 Evans steamed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to prepare for transfer to Great Britain as part of the destroyers for bases agreement. Decommissioned in October, she immediately joined the Royal Navy as HMS Mansfield. In service with the Royal Norwegian Navy between December 1940 and February 1942, she participated in a raid on Norway's coast in April 1941. The ship also had convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic, where on 16 October 1942 she rescued 38 survivors of a mined ship. During 1942 and 1943 Mansfield was part of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorting shipping in the vicinity of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. She was inactive after November 1943 and went out of commission in June 1944. The old destroyer was subsequently scrapped in Canada.

USS Evans was named in honor of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans (1846-1912), who served actively as a U.S. Navy officer from the Civil War through the first decade of the 20th Century.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Evans (Destroyer # 78, later DD-78).


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Photo #: NH 61877

USS Evans
(Destroyer # 78)

In New York Harbor during the Victory Fleet naval review, 27 December 1918. Some of the fleet's battleships are visible in the background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69333

USS Evans (DD-78)


Anchored off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69335

USS Evans (DD-78)


Off San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.
Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69332

USS Evans (DD-78)


At San Diego, California, circa the early 1920s.
Photographed by the Pier Studio, San Diego.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69334

USS Evans (DD-78)


Photographed circa the early 1920s.

Courtesy of ESKC Joseph L. Aguillard, USNR, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67729

USS Evans (DD-78)


In a harbor, circa the 1930s.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98029

"Old Hen and Chickens"


USS Kanawha (AO-1) with thirteen destroyers alongside, off San Diego, California, during the early 1920s.
Photographed by Bunnell, 414 E Street, San Diego.
Ships present are identified in Photo # NH 98029 (complete caption).
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42539

"Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California


Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # NH 42539 (complete caption).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-42030

HMS Mansfield

(British/Canadian Destroyer, formerly USS Evans, DD-78)
In icy seas, while on North Atlantic convoy duty in June 1943.
Photographed from USS Greer (DD-145).
Mansfield was serving in the Royal Canadian Navy at the time.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 600 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


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