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USCGC Groton (PF 29)
ex-USS Groton (PF 29)



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Victor - Oboe

ex-PG-137

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


Groton served the Navies of the United States and the Columbia.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1). Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-137; Redesignated as a Patrol Frigate, PF-29, 15 April 1943; Laid down 15 July 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched, 14 September 1943; Commissioned USS Groton (PF-29), 5 September 1944; Decommissioned 13 March 1946 at Boston, MA. and transferred to the Coast Guard and recommissioned the same day as USCGC Groton (PF 29); Decommissioned 29 September 1946 at New Orleans, LA. and returned to Navy custody; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Lake Charles, LA; Transferred to the State Deptment for disposal; Sold to Columbia 26 March 1947 as ARC Almirante Padilla
(CM 51). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11" (oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 214; Armament two 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 Valley Iron Works vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

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USS Groton (PF 29)
Groton 54k c. 1 July - 21 October 1945
Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada.
Photo by Don F. Roban, S1/c, USCG		 Mark Grobbel, BM1/c, USCG
via Mike Grobbel
ARC Almirante Padilla (CM 51)
Groton 52k c. 1948 Robert Hurst
Groton 61k c. 1953
Columbian Navy photo		 Robert Hurst
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