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 stars 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) ==