USS Evans (DD-78)
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 United States
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| 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
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| Name: | HMS Mansfield |
| Commissioned: | 23 October 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 June 1944 |
| Fate: | Broken up for scrap 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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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.
Named for Robley Dunglison Evans, she was launched on 30 October 1918 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. D. N. Sewell, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Evans. The ship was commissioned on 11 November 1918, Commander Frank H. Sadler in command.
After a training and outfitting period which included a maiden voyage to the Azores, Evans departed Newport, Rhode Island on 10 June 1919 for European waters, where she operated until 22 August, returning then to New York. She sailed once more on 11 September, and after patrolling off Central America, reached her assigned home port, San Diego, on 14 November.
Through the next 2 years, Evans joined in a training schedule which found her ranging the eastern Pacific from Valparaíso, Chile, to Astoria, Oregon. She was placed in reserve at San Diego 6 October 1921, and decommissioned on 29 May 1922. Recommissioned on 1 April 1930, she operated out of San Diego for 6 months, then was assigned to duty training members of the naval reserve out of New York City, where she arrived 6 December 1930. She returned to San Diego 26 March 1932, to sail with the Battle Fleet on training cruises and in exercises along the west coast and in Hawaiian and Alaskan waters.
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