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Shreveport (PF 23)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Tango - Mike

ex-PG-131

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Laid down 8 March 1943 as Patrol Gunboat, Shreveport (PG 131) under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1434) at Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-23, 15 April 1943; Launched 15 July 1943; Commissioned USS Shreveport (PF-23), 10 December 1943 at Navy Repair Base Algiers, LA; Decommissioned 9 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register 10 June 1946; Sold for scrap in September 1947 to Sun Shipbuilding Co. of Chester, PA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11" (oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 190; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts (the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added), 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 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp Diamond Iron Works vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

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