USS Eversole ( DD - 789 ) USS " Eversole " ( DD - 789 ) was a of the United States Navy , the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant ( junior grade ) John T . Eversole ( 1915 – 1942 ) , a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway . " Eversole " was launched on 8 January 1946 by Todd - Pacific Shipyards , Inc . , Seattle , Washington ; sponsored by Mrs . S . R . Eversole , mother of Lt . ( j . g . ) Eversole ; and commissioned on 10 May 1946 , Commander B . P . Ross in command . Service history . " Eversole " arrived at San Diego , Calif . , her home port , on 6 October 1946 , and in the years prior to the Korean War , twice sailed to the Far East for duty with the 7th Fleet , patrolling off China and Japan . She sailed from San Diego on 1 May 1950 for another such tour , and thus was in the Orient upon the opening of the war . Until 8 February 1951 , when she returned to San Diego , she screened the fast carrier task forces as they launched air strikes against North Korean targets . During her second tour of duty in the Korean War , from 27 August 1951 to 10 April 1952 , " Eversole " bombarded Hŭngnam , Wonsan , and other points along the east coast of Korea , and served in the Blockading and Escort Force , with ships of the navies of Great Britain , Canada , Netherlands , Australia , New Zealand , and the Republic of Korea . From 17 November 1952 to 29 June 1953 , she served a similar tour of duty . " Eversole " received seven battle star s for her Korean War service . From 1954 through 1961 , " Eversole " made an annual deployment to the Far East , serving on the Taiwan Patrol , exercising off Japan , Okinawa , and in the Philippines , and visiting a wide variety of western Pacific ports . In both 1957 and 1958 , she made her outward bound passage by way of Australia , and in all of these tours , made an important contribution to the power for peace of the 7th Fleet . She then entered the Bremerton Naval Shipyard in Bremerton , Washington to undergo a FRAM I upgrade , a modernization program under which " Eversole " and forty - three other " Gearing - class " ships received updated radars , sonars and electronic suites and the ASROC and DASH anti - submarine weapons systems . " Eversole " emerged from the shipyard in February 1963 to be homeported at the Long Beach Naval Station in Long Beach , California . During her periods of training and preparation for deployment on the west coast , " Eversole " often visited ports of the Pacific Northwest , and on occasion voyaged to the Hawaiian Islands . On 8 October 1969 " Eversole " deployed from Long Beach Naval Station , California , to the western Pacific stopping in Oahu , Hawaii , and Midway Island in transit to Yokosuka , Japan before frequent deployments to the Tonkin Gulf for plane guard assignments with the carrier forces of the 7th fleet and naval gunfire support duties for ground troops . Between combat deployments Subic Bay Naval Station was used as the overseas homeport . Other R & R and maintenance visits were made to Sasebo , Japan and Hong Kong . " Eversole " returned to Long Beach Naval Station , California , on 8 April 1970 . TCG " Gayret " ( D - 352 ) . On 11 July 1973 , " Eversole " was transferred to Turkey . She served in the Turkish Navy as TCG " Gayret " ( D - 352 ) . " Gayret " was stricken in 1995 . She is preserved as a museum ship at the Kocaeli Museum Ships Command .