[hotspur01]

I have read your article with interest, as I was serving onboard HMS Cleopatra at the time, I remember being woken up at 3am with the ships broadcast telling of the emergency.For a few days the weather had been a bit rough, but in the morning the weather was flat calm, the sky and sea a dirty grey colour, and in the middle of the ring of rescue ships was the stern part of the Frank E Evans, still afloat, a picture that remains in my mind to this day, and my heart went out to those that perished. I heard later that the stern section was towed to Subic Bay to be decommisioned. Thank you for filling in some of the details that i never had

[divametso]

My husband was aboard the Evans when it was struck, fortunately he was on the half that stayed afloat. Starting in 1997 there is a reunion for the crew. This includes any one who served aboard her since she was put into service. So there are many men from the Korean War and the Viet Nam War. I don't recall any one from WW2 attending. The reunion is held yearly at different locations here in the states.