USS Gloucester (PF-22)

USS Gloucester (PF-22)
History
United States
Name	Gloucester (PG-130)
Namesake	City of Gloucester, Massachusetts
Builder	Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin
Yard number	19
Laid down	4 March 1943
Reclassified	PF-34, 15 April 1943
Launched	12 July 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. Emily K. Ross
Commissioned	10 December 1943
Decommissioned	3 September 1945
Fate	Transferred to Soviet Navy, 4 September 1945
Acquired	Returned by Soviet Navy, 31 October 1949
Recommissioned	11 October 1950
Decommissioned	15 September 1952
Fate	Transferred to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1 October 1953
Stricken	1 December 1961
Acquired	Returned by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 31 March 1969
Fate	Final disposition unknown
Soviet Union
Name	EK-26
Acquired	4 September 1945
Commissioned	4 September 1945
Fate	Returned to United States, 31 October 1949
Japan
Name	Tsuge
Acquired	1 October 1953
Decommissioned	31 March 1968
Fate	Returned to United States, 31 March 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	Tacoma-class frigate
Displacement	1,430 long tons (1,453 t) light 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) full
Length	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam	37 ft 11 in (11.56 m)
Draft	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion	2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	3 × 3"/50 dual purpose guns (3x1) 4 x 40 mm guns (2×2) 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × Depth charge tracks

USS Gloucester (PF-22), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gloucester, Massachusetts. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-26 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Tsuge (PF-12) and JDS Tsuge (PF-292).