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Tacoma (PF 3)
ex-PG-111

Call sign:
November - Xray - Whiskey - Charlie

Tacoma served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and South Korea.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

(MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Lead ship of Tacoma Class Patrol Frigates

Laid down under Maritime Commission Contract, (MC hull 1421), 10 March 1943 as Patrol Gunboat, PG-111 at Kaiser Cargo Inc., Richmond, CA

Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-3, 15 April 1943

Named Tacoma 5 May 1943

Launched 7 July 1943

Commissioned USS Tacoma (PF-3), 6 November 1943

Decommissioned at Cold Harbor, Alaska 16 August 1945

Loaned to the Soviet Union and reclassified EK-12

Returned to U.S. custody 16 October 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan

Recommissioned 1 December 1950

Decommissioned in early October 1951

Transferred to the Republic of Korea 9 October 1951 and renamed Taedong (PF-63)

Returned to U.S. custody 28 February 1973

Struck from the Naval Register 20 April 1973

Donated to the Republic of Korea Navy 1 June 1973 as a museum and training ship.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,430 t. (lt), 2,415 t. (fl)

Length 303' 11"

Beam 37' 6"

Draft 13' 8"

Speed 20.3 kts.

Complement 190

Armament: Three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts, nine 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, eight depth charge projectors and one depth charge projector (hedgehog)

Propulsion: Two 240psi 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp verticle triple expansion steam engines, two shafts..

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Tacoma (PF 3)
	65k	U.S. Coast Guard photo	Mike Hanlon
	97k	.	.
	98k	11 December 1943 Off San Francisco. She was at Mare Island for repairs from 16 June 1944 to 10 October 1944 and was in dry dock No. 2 from 23 - 26 June 1944. U.S. Navy photos 8157-43, 8164-43 and 8166-43	Darryl L. Baker
	145k
	83k
	392k	c. 1944 Seattle, WA From the collection of James R. Dunlap, Jr., Water Tender 3rd Class (somwhere in the first row)	James R. Dunlap, III
Taedong (PF 63)
	330k	16 January 1952 Han Estuary, South Korea Along side the repair ship USS Jason (ARH-1). The Jason was the flagship of Service Squadron Three which supplied mobile logistic support for United Nations’ naval units. The ships fantails visible are: (L-R) the Australian Bay-class frigate HMAS Murchison (F 442); the Colombian Tacoma-class frigate Almirante Padilla (FG 51), ex-USS Groton (PF 29); the Tacoma-class frigate USS Gloucester (PF-22), and the South Korean Tacoma-class frigate Taedong U.S. Navy photo	Robert Hurst
	124k	c. 1963 Korean Navy photo from the 1964/1965 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships	Robert Hurst