USS Evans (DD-78)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Evans.
The first USS Evans (DD–78) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Mansfield.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Evans |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 28 December 1917 |
Launched | 30 October 1918 |
Commissioned | 11 November 1918 |
Decommissioned | 29 May 1922 |
Recommissioned | 1 April 1930 |
Decommissioned | 31 March 1937 |
Recommissioned | 30 September 1939 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom 23 October 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Mansfield |
Commissioned | 23 October 1940 |
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Norway | |
Name | HNoMS Mansfield |
Acquired | December 1940 |
Fate | Returned to Royal Navy March 1942 |
Canada | |
Name | HMCS Mansfield |
Acquired | March 1942 |
Decommissioned | 22 June 1944 |
Fate | Scrapped 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,090 tons |
Length | 315 ft 5 in (96.14 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Speed | 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
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