USS Gloucester (PF-22)
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History | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Armament |
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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).