&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Burlington_(PF-51).jpg) USS Burlington (PF-51)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Burlington |
| Namesake | City of Burlington, Iowa |
| Reclassified | PF-51, 15 April 1943 |
| Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, Los Angeles |
| Yard number | 536 |
| Laid down | 19 October 1943 |
| Launched | 7 December 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Florence E. Conrad |
| Acquired | 31 March 1944 |
| Commissioned | 3 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 26 August 1945 |
| Honors and awards | 2 battle stars, World War II |
| Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 26 August 1945[1] |
| Acquired | Returned by Soviet Navy, 14 November 1949 |
| Recommissioned | 5 January 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 15 September 1952 |
| Honors and awards | 5 battle stars, Korean War |
| Stricken | 28 May 1953 |
| Fate | Sold to Colombian National Armada, 26 June 1953 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | EK-21 |
| Acquired | 26 August 1945[1] |
| Commissioned | 26 August 1945[1] |
| Fate | Returned to United States, 14 November 1949 |
 Colombia | |
| Name | Almirante Brión |
| Acquired | 26 June 1953 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,264 long tons (1,284 t) |
| Length | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft 11 in (11.56 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 190 |
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USS Burlington (PF-51) was a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1952, the only United States Navy ship thus far to have been named for Burlington, Iowa. She also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-21 and in the Colombian National Armada as ARC Almirante Brión (F 14).
- ^ a b c The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Burlington article states that Burlington was transferred on 26 August 1945, and NavSource Online: Frigate Photo Archive Burlington (PF 51) ex-PG-159 and hazegray.org Burlington repeats this. However, more recent research in Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War, reports that the transfer date was 26 August 1945. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994. According to Russell, Project Hula ships were decommissioned by the U.S. Navy simultaneously with their transfer to the Soviet Navy – see photo captions on p. 24 regarding the transfers of various large infantry landing craft (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of USS Coronado (PF-38), which Russell says typified the transfer process – indicating that Burlington's U.S. Navy decommissioning, transfer, and Soviet Navy commissioning all occurred simultaneously on 26 August 1945.