USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)
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Everett F. Larson underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 16 April 1969
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 United States
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| Name: | Everett F. Larson |
| Namesake: | Private First Class Everett F. Larson )1920-1942), U.S. Marine and Silver Star recipient |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 4 September 1944 |
| Launched: | 28 January 1945 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. H. Larson, mother of PFC Larson |
| Commissioned: | 6 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | August 1972 |
| Struck: | 2 June 1975 |
| Fate: | Transferred to South Korea, 30 October 1972 |
 South Korea
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| Name: | ROKS Jeong Buk (DD-916) |
| Acquired: | 30 October 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1999 |
| Fate: | Museum ship, South Korea |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Everett F. Larson (DD/DDR-830) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Private First Class Everett F. Larson (1920–1942) who was killed in the Guadalcanal campaign.
Everett F. Larson was launched on 28 January 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. H. Larson, mother of PFC Larson; and commissioned on 6 April 1945, Commander H. Meyers in command. She was reclassified DDR-830 on 18 March 1949.
Everett F. Larson sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on 1 August 1945 for the Pacific, and on 29 September arrived at Tokyo Bay. During her lengthy occupation service, she participated in the landing of Marines at Taku, China, in October 1945, and in Operation "Road's End," the sinking of 24 captured Japanese submarines in April 1946. She put in San Diego, California, on 21 December, bound for Newport, Rhode Island, her assigned home port, where she arrived on 19 March 1947.
During her nine years with the Atlantic Fleet, Everett F. Larson completed seven tours of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, patrolling the Near East during the crisis over the Palestine partition and joining in NATO training cruises in 1948 and 1955, and participated in antisubmarine warfare activities off the east coast, as well as training in the Caribbean.
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