Everett F. Larson, 1947

Everett F. Larson (DD-830) was launched 28 January 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. H. Larson, mother of Private First Class Larson; and commissioned 6 April 1945, Commander H. Meyers in command. She was reclassified DDR-830 on 18 March 1949.

Everett F. Larson sailed from Boston 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 to San Diego, Calif., 21 December, bound for Newport, R.I., her assigned home port, where she arrived 19 March 1947.

Everett F. Larson's last eastern Pacific operation prior to her 1960 deployment to the western Pacific was as a unit of the U.S. First Fleet passing in review in the annual "Great White Fleet Review", in September 1960, in San Francisco Bay.

[Taken from the entry on the Everett F. Larson in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.]