The first USS Evans (DD–78) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Mansfield.
USS Evans (DD-78)
HMS Mansfield at a buoy on the Medway, August 1942
Robley D. Evans (admiral)
Robley Dunglison Evans, born in Floyd County, Virginia, was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, who served from the American Civil War to the Spanish–American War. In 1907–1908, he commanded the Great White Fleet on its worldwide cruise from the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits of Magellan to the Pacific Ocean.
Robley D. Evans (admiral)
Early photo
Evans (left) and President Theodore Roosevelt aboard Roosevelt's yacht, The Mayflower