Allied Warships
USS Eversole (i) (DE 404)
Destroyer Escort of the John C. Butler class
Commissioning ceremony aboard USS Eversole.
Photograph with thanks to Jim Cobus, whose uncle Ted Campbell served aboard USS Eversole and survived the sinking.
| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | John C. Butler |
| Pennant | DE 404 |
| Built by | Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 15 Sep, 1943 |
| Launched | 3 Dec, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 21 Mar, 1944 |
| Lost | 28 Oct, 1944 |
| Loss position | 10.18N, 127.37E (See a map) |
| History | Sunk on 28 October in Leyte Gulf in position 10º18'N, 127º37'E after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-45 (offsite link). 139 survivors, most of them wounded, were picked up by USS Richard S. Bull. |