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Gloucester (PF 22)

Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Victor - Charlie

ex-PG-130

Gloucester served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Laid down as Patrol Gunboat, PG-130 under a Maritime Commission Contract, by the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-22, 15 April 1943; Launched 12 July 1943; Commissioned USS Gloucester (PF-22), 10 December 1943; Decommissioned 3 September 1945; Transferred 4 September 1945 under the Lend Lease Program to the Soviet Union at Cold Harbor, Alaska as EK-26; Returned to U.S. custody 31 October 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 11 October 1950 at Yokosuka; Decommissioned 15 September 1952; Transferred on loan to Japan 1 October 1953 as Tsuge (PF-292); Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1961; Permanent custody transferred to Japan in March 1962; Decommissioned 31 March 1968; Returned to U.S. custody 31 March 1969. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"; Bean 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 guns, one Hedgehog depth charge projector, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion two 240psi 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp verticle triple expansion J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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	97k	c. 1944 National Archives photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott		Krlicbegovic Edib Bosnia & Hercegovina

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