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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98649

Loss of USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754)
, 2 June 1969

SH-3 helicopters from USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) join search and rescue operations over the stern section of USS Frank E. Evans, as USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) stands ready to offer assistance (at right). A Royal Australian Navy frigate is also present.
Frank E. Evans was cut in two in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne during Southeast Asian Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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20 August 2003