EVANS DD 78

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Wickes Class Destroyer
Keel Laid December 28 1917 - Launched October 30 1918


1. USS EVANS Destroyer No. 78
   Commissioned November 11 1918
   
   
2. USS EVANS DD-78
   Designated (DD) July 17 1920
   Placed in Reserve Status October 6 1921
   Decommissioned May 29 1922
   Recommissioned April 1 1930 - Decommissioned March 31 1937
   Recommissioned September 30 1939 - Decommissioned October 23 1940
   
   Struck from Navy Register January 8 1941
   
   
3. HMS MANSFIELD G-76 (British Naval Service)
   Transferred to Great Britain October 23 1940 (Famous Fifty)
   
   
4. KNM MANSFIELD (Norwegian Naval Service)
   Loaned to The Royal Norwegian Navy December 1940 - March 1942
   
   
5. HMCS MANSFIELD (Canadian Naval Service)
   Loaned to The Royal Canadian Navy April 1942
   Decommissioned June 22 1944
   
   Broken up for scrap 1945

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1935-40)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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2nd Commissioning April 1 1930 to March 31 1937

 

Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"

1935-06-14 to 1935-06-14

Cachet by John Coulthard

 

Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "BROOKLYN NY / NAVY YARD"

1936-04-16 to 1936-04-16

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Locy Type 3s "BROOKLYN NY / NAVY YARD"

1931-04-17 to 1931-04-17

Note: Signed by NMC

 

Locy Type LDPS 3 "LAST DAY IN / COMMISSION"

1937-04-05 to 1937-04-05

Last Day in Commission
Cachet by - Walter G. Crosby

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3rd Commissioning September 30 1939 to October 23 1940

 

Locy Type FDC RECD USCS Catalog Illustration CD-R1

1939-09-30 to 1939-09-30

First Day in Commission
Cachet by - Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Locy Type FDPS 3r "KEY WEST / FLA"

1939-12-13 to 1939-12-13

First Day of Postal Service

 

Locy Type LDPS 3r "PORTSMOUTH / VA"

1940-10-05 to 1940-10-05

Last Day of Postal Service

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Rear Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans (August 18 1846 - January 3 1912)
Evans commanded the U.S. Navy's "Great White Fleet" on its world-wide cruise of 1907-1908. Born in Floyd County, Virginia, Evans was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1864. He was ordered to active duty in September 1863. In the attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, he exhibited great gallantry under fire on January 15 1865. He led his landing party of Marines through heavy fire to charge the Confederate defenses. Evans continued to fight even after his fourth wound, drawing his pistol and threatened to kill any man who attempted to amputate his leg in surgery when he was evacuated. Evans held numerous important sea commands during the 1890s. In 1891 and 1892, commanding USS YORKTOWN PG-1 on the Pacific Station, he won great acclaim for his firm and skillful handling of a tense situation with Chile, becoming known as "Fighting Bob" Evans. During the Spanish-American War he commanded the battleship USS IOWA BB-4 in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Rear Admiral Evans commanded the Great White Fleet in its passage in 1907 and 1908 from the Atlantic through the Straits of Magellan to the Pacific, where he was relieved of command because of ill health

 

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