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USCGC Emporia (PF 28)
ex-USS Emporia (PF 28)
ex-PG-136



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Tare - Sugar

Emporia served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1). Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat PG-136; Redesignated as a Patrol Frigate , PF-28, 15 April 1943; Laid down 14 July 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 30 August 1943; Commissioned USS Emporia (PF-28), 12 June 1944; Decommissioned 14 March 1946 at New Orleans, LA and turned over to the Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Emporia (PF 28) the same day; Decommissioned 28 August 1946 and returned to Naval custody; Sold to France 26 March 1947 as the Weather Ship Le Verrier; Scrapped in 1958.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 214; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts , nine 20mm guns, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500 iHP vertical triple expansion Diamond Iron Works engine, two shafts.

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USS Emporia (PF 28)
Emporia 36k . Dick Greski via his son John Nebelsiek
Le Verrier
Emporia 45k . Robert Hurst
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