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USSEvarts in August 1944
Class overview
Name	Evarts class
Builders	Boston Navy Yard, MA Mare Island Navy Yard, CA Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA
Operators	United States Navy  Royal Navy  Republic of China Navy
Preceded by	N/A
Succeeded by	Buckley class
Planned	105
Completed	97
Cancelled	8
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer escort
Displacement	1,360 tons (fully loaded)
Length	289 ft 6 in (88.2 m) (overall)
Beam	35 ft (10.7 m)
Draft	9 ft (2.7 m) (fully loaded)
Propulsion	4 × GM Model16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, two propellers
Speed	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) (Many ships were capable of 21–22 knots)
Range	5,000 mi (4,300 nmi; 8,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Sensors & processing systems	Radar: Type SL Surface search and type SA Air search only fitted to certain ships. Asdic (Sonar): Type 128D or Type 144 both in retractable dome. Direction Finding: MF Direction Finding and HF/DF Type FH 4 antenna
Armament	Main guns: 3 ×3 inch/50 guns in open mounts Anti-aircraft guns: 7 ×Oerlikon 20 mm guns Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar Depth Charges: Up to 160 depth charges were carried.

TheEvarts-class destroyer escorts weredestroyer escorts launched in theUnited States in 1942–44. They served inWorld War II asconvoy escorts andanti-submarine warfare ships. They were also known as the GMT or "short hull" DE class, with GMT standing for General Motors Tandem Diesel drive.

Thelead ship wasUSS Evarts, launched on 7 December 1942, exactly a year after theattack on Pearl Harbor. The first ship to be completed was commissioned on 20 January 1943 at theBoston Navy Yard; it was delivered to theRoyal Navy under theLend-Lease provisions and becameHMS Bayntun.Evarts-class ships were driven bydiesel-electric power with four diesel engines mounted in tandem with electric drives. The ships wereprefabricated in sections at various factories in theUnited States and the units brought together in the shipyards, where they were welded together on theslipways. The original design specified eight engines for 24 knots but other priority programs forced the use of only four with a consequent shortening of the hull.^[1]

In all, 105Evarts-class ships were ordered with 8 later being cancelled. TheUnited States Navy commissioned 65 while 32Evarts-class ships were delivered to the Royal Navy. They were classed asfrigates and named after captains of theNapoleonic Wars and formed part of theCaptain class along with 46 ships of theBuckley class.

• List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
• List of frigates of the United States Navy subset of above with hull numbers DE/FF 1037 and higher plus all DEG/FFGs because of theUnited States Navy 1975 ship reclassification
• List of frigates

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