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Photo # NH 98646:  USS Everett F. Larson firing her five-inch guns, off Vietnam, 1972

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830, later DDR-830 and DD-830), 1945-1972

USS Everett F. Larson, a 2425-ton Gearing class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine, during the final year of World War II. Commissioned in April 1945, she was almost immediately converted for radar picket service and went to the Pacific at the beginning of August, a few weeks before Japan's capitulation ended the war. Everett F. Larson arrived in the western Pacific in late September and spent some fifteen months in Asiatic waters. Returning to the United States in December 1946, the destroyer was soon transferred to the Atlantic. She was redesignated DDR-830 in March 1949, made seven deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and was active in other Atlantic Fleet operations.

In June 1956 Everett F. Larson went back to the Pacific, her assignment for the remainder of her active career. She made four Far Eastern tours between March 1957 and March 1961. During the last half of 1962 she was modernized as part of the FRAM ("Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization") II program, which replaced her distinctive radar picket features with a largely new superstructure containing a small hangar for "DASH" drone helicopters. Other antisubmarine weapons were also installed, and the ship was redesignated DD-830 shortly before the shipyard work was completed.

From 1963 until the end of the decade, Everett F. Larson went to the western Pacific on an annual basis, regularly using her five-inch guns for bombardment purposes during Vietnam War operations from 1965 on. She also served as a plane guard for aircraft carriers during the conflict, was in the Sea of Japan for several weeks after North Korea captured the intelligence ship Pueblo in January 1968, and took part in a variety of exercises involving ships of the U.S. and allied navies. While so engaged in early June 1969, Everett F. Larson came to the assistance of the destroyer Frank E. Evans after that ship was cut in two in a tragic collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne.

In 1971 and 1972 Everett F. Larson had two final Seventh Fleet tours, serving off Vietnam during both. She came home in July 1972 and was prepared for transfer abroad. USS Everett F. Larson decommissioned at the end of October 1972 and was turned over to the Republic of Korea Navy, initially on loan and later by sale. Renamed JEONG BUK, she had nearly three decades of Korean service before being discarded in 2000 to become a museum and memorial in South Korea.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830, later DDR-830 and DD-830).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 51054

USS Everett F. Larson (DDR-830)


Underway in May 1958.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98645

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)


Comes alongside USS Mispillion (AO-105) to refuel, during operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, October 1967.
Photographed by PH1 Don Grantham, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 106KB; 515 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98644

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)


Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 16 April 1969.
Photographed by PH2 G.W. MacDonald, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98646

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)


Fires her forward 5"/38 guns while supporting South Vietnamese troops in Vietnam's Military Region One, 1972.
Photographed by PH1 C.R. Pedrick, USN.
This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in May 1972.
See Photo # NH 98646-A for an uncropped version of this photograph.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98647

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)


Commissioning ceremonies on the destroyer's after deck, 6 April 1945. Taken at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98648

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)


The National Ensign is raised during the destroyer's commissioning ceremonies, 6 April 1945. Taken at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-413452

Istanbul, Turkey


Sixth Fleet warships anchored off the city during a "good will" visit, 2 March 1950.
Note Navy personnel on the landing in left center, with United States and Turkish flags flying nearby.
Ships present are (from left to right):
USS Glennon (DD-840);
USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865);
USS Newport News (CA-148);
USS Everett F. Larson (DDR-830); and
USS Midway (CVB-41).

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

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 590 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 98651

Loss of USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754)
, 2 June 1969

Frank E. Evans's stern section tied up alongside USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830), after she was cut in two in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne. The ships were participating in Southeast Asian Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea when the collision occurred.
Photographed by PH2 Robert Green, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98650

Loss of USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754)
, 2 June 1969

Frank E. Evans's stern section tied up alongside USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830), after she was cut in two in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne. The ships were participating in Southeast Asian Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea when the collision occurred.
Photographed by PH2 J.C. Borovoy, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98649

Loss of USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754)
, 2 June 1969

SH-3 helicopters from USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) join search and rescue operations over the stern section of USS Frank E. Evans, as USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) stands ready to offer assistance (at right). A Royal Australian Navy frigate is also present.
Frank E. Evans was cut in two in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne during Southeast Asian Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67186-KN (color)

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)

Enameled metal plaque of the ship's insignia, as used after 1962.

Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 114KB; 630 x 675 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 67186-A-KN (color)

USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)

Jacket patch of the ship's insignia used after 1962.

Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 175KB; 640 x 675 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830, later DDR-830 and DD-830). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • Photo #: 80-G-311689
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) underway off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, 6 April 1945, during a trial run from Bath, Maine, to Boston.
    Port bow low aerial view, with the ship making good speed.

  • Photo #: 80-G-311691
    As 80-G-311689, but port quarter aerial view.


  • Photo #: 80-G-396622
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) underway at sea, 25 July 1948. Photographed by R.M. Jones. The ship has the tripod mainmast of a "first generation" radar picket conversion.
    Starboard broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1078747
    USS Everett F. Larson (DDR-830) in Pearl Harbor, October 1960. The ship carries a height-finding radar antenna atop her after deckhouse.
    Starboard broadside surface view, with the ship framed in palm trees.

  • Photo #: USN 1053886
    USS Everett F. Larson (DDR-830) underway off the coast of Japan, 17 February 1961. Photographed by PH3 W.T. Portman.
    Starboard bow low aerial view.


  • Photo #: USN 1066911
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) in a harbor, 15 February 1963, after her FRAM II modernization.
    Port broadside (somewhat toward the bow) surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1088181
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) underway on a calm sea, making relatively low speed, June 1963. Photographed by PH1 R.C. Moen, of USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63).
    Port broadside (somewhat toward the bow) aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1094465
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) underway at sea, 13 June 1963. Photographed by PH1 J.M. Julius, of squadron VU-7.
    Starboard bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: KN-8203 (color)
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) underway at sea, with another destroyer in the background, 7 June 1963. Photographed by PHC J.M. Hudak, of squadron VU-7.
    Port bow surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1093277
    USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) at Pearl Harbor, 13 August 1963. Photographed by PH2 G.A. Worthington.
    Starboard bow surface view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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