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Robert C. Evans

Birth	:	4 Oct 1925
Death	:	4 Dec 1944 At Sea
Burial	:	Riverside Cemetery, Stevensville, Ravalli County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.4986000, -114.0982971
Description	:	USNR WORLD WAR II Seaman 1st Class Robert C. Evans MIA/KIA Hometown: South Carolina Official Date of death: 04-Dec-44 Service # 5758616 Awards: Purple Heart Captain: Master Jesse Field Bird Mission: Transport ship: American Turbine tanker Touchet Loss Date: 3-Dec-43 Cargo: 120,000 barrels of heating oil Location: 25° 50'N, 86° 30'W - Grid DL 2626 Gulf of Mexico Fate: Sunk by U-193 (Hans Pauckstadt) Complement: 80 (10 dead and 70 survivors). Notes on event At 07.47 hours on 3 Dec, 1943, the unescorted Touchet was hit on the port side by a... Read More	USNR WORLD WAR II Seaman 1st Class Robert C. Evans MIA/KIA Hometown: South Carolina Official Date of death: 04-Dec-44 Service # 5758616 Awards: Purple Heart Captain: Master Jesse Field Bird Mission: Transport ship: American Turbine tanker Touchet Loss Date: 3-Dec-43 Cargo: 120,000 barrels of heating oil Location: 25° 50'N, 86° 30'W - Grid DL 2626 Gulf of Mexico Fate: Sunk by U-193 (Hans Pauckstadt) Complement: 80 (10 dead and 70 survivors). Notes on event At 07.47 hours on 3 Dec, 1943, the unescorted Touchet was hit on the port side by a torpedo from U-193 in the Gulf of Mexico while steaming at 16.5 knots. The torpedo struck the bow ten feet aft of the stem and opened a 20 feet long hole. The tanker was equipped with a torpedo indicator that warned the crew but the turn to port was too late, after the hit the engine was first secured while turning to the opposite direction and then ordered full ahead in an attempt to escape. Due to the flooding the bow settled and forced the ship to stop, when another torpedo warning sounded but this was apparently a dud hitting the port side amidships. The most of the ten officers, 40 crewmen and 30 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 5in, one 3in and eight 20mm guns) abandoned ship in six lifeboats, only the armed guard officer and ten of his men remained behind and manned the 5in stern gun. At 08.22 hours, a coup de grâce hit the engine room on the starboard side and caused the ship to sink stern first at 11.00 hours. The men still on board had to jump overboard and swam to a raft but the suction of the sinking ship was so strong that all except one armed guard drowned. On 5 December, the 43 survivors in four boats were picked up by the Norwegian steam merchant Lillemor (Master Bernt Belland) and landed them the next day at Pensacola, Florida. The same day, USS Falgout (DE 324) picked up eleven survivors from another boat and on 6 December, the remaining 16 survivors in the last boat were picked up by USS Raven (AM 55) and landed in Galveston on 8 December. Seaman Evans appears Tablets of the Missing East Coast Memorial New York City lost Dec 3rd 1943 officially declared killed Dec 4th 1944. His memorial Union Memorial Gardens Union Union County South Carolina is a cenotaph his body was never recovered. USN Crew KIA Robert C. Evans Robert C. Evans Harold J. Farni Leo J. Felgenauer James P Fisher Joseph A. Fowler Carmelo J. Giallanza William E. Gilson Ronell H. Goins Ronell H. Goins Carl J. Gridelli Manuel J. Gutierrez

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Where is Robert C. Evans's memorial?
Robert C. Evans's memorial is located at: Riverside Cemetery, Stevensville, Ravalli County, USA.
When did Robert C. Evans death?
Robert C. Evans death on 4 Dec 1944 in At Sea
Where are the coordinates of the Robert C. Evans's memorial?
Latitude: 46.4986000
Longitude: -114.0982971

Family Members:

Parent

Lawrence Logan Evans

(1888 - 1957)

Annie Shettlesworth Willard Evans

(1898 - 1991)

Siblings

William Thomas Evans

(1918 - 1920)

Mabel Irene Evans Lawson

(1920 - 2004)

Ray Edward Evans

(1929 - 1996)

Barbara Ann Evans Land

(1931 - 2020)

Billy Roderick Evans

(1933 - 1997)

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