History | |
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United States | |
Name | Worcester |
Namesake | City of Worcester, Massachusetts |
Reclassified | PF-62, 15 April 1943 |
Builder | Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
Yard number | 116 |
Laid down | 14 October 1943 |
Launched | 7 January 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Phyllis M. Bennett |
Renamed | Gladwyne |
Namesake | City of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania |
Commissioned | 21 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 1946 |
Stricken | 8 October 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to Mexican Navy, 24 November 1947 |
Mexico | |
Name | Papaloapan |
Namesake | Papaloapan River |
Acquired | 24 November 1947 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1965 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
Beam | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 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 Gladwyne (PF-62), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. Originally named Worcester after Worcester, Massachusetts, the name was changed in order to give it to new light cruiser USS Worcester (CL-144) then under construction.