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Newport (PF 27)

Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Victor - Jig

ex-PG-135

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

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-135; Redesignated Patrol Frigate, PF-27, 15 April 1943; Laid down 5 June 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 15 August 1943; Completed and commissioned USS Newport (PF-27), 8 September 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned 9 September 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska; Transferred under the Lend Lease Program to the Soviet Union 10 September 1945 as EK-27; Returned to U.S. custody 14 November 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 27 July 1950 at Yokosuka; Decommissioned 30 April 1952 at Yokosuka; Transferred on loan to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 1 October 1953; as Kaede (PF-13); Reclassified PF-293, 1 September 1957; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1961; Transferred outright to Japan 28 August 1962; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Service Craft, YAC-17, 31 March 1966; Decommissioned 31 March 1972; Returned to U.S. custody 20 May 1975. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11" (oa); 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 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp York Ice Machine Corp. vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	150k	Photo courtesy of Roger L. Myers, WWII crew member		Jacqueline Snow

View the Newport (PF-27)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation

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