&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Long_Beach_(PF_34).jpg) USS Long Beach (PF-34)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Long Beach |
| Namesake |
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| Builder | Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
| Laid down | 19 March 1943 |
| Reclassified | PF-34, 15 April 1943 |
| Launched | 5 May 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Walter Boyd |
| Commissioned | 8 September 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 12 July 1945 |
| Honors and awards | 4 × battle stars, World War II |
| Fate | Transferred to the Soviet Navy, 12 July 1945 |
| Acquired | Returned from Soviet Navy, 1949 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 30 November 1953 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | EK-2 |
| Acquired | 12 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 12 July 1945[1] |
| Honors and awards | Guards rank and ensign |
| Fate | Returned to United States, 1949 |
 Japan | |
| Name | Shii |
| Acquired | 30 November 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 1967 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1967 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
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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) |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 190 |
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The second USS Long Beach (PF-34) was a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-2 and then in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii (PF-17) and Shii (PF-297) and YAS-44.
- ^ According to 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, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War, Project Hula ships were commissioned into the Soviet Navy simultaneously with their transfer from the U.S. 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, which Russell says typified the transfer process. 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.