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USCGC Woonsocket (PF 32)
ex-USS Woonsocket (PF-32)



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Tare - Yoke

ex-PG-140


Woonsocket served the Navies of the United States and Peru.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally assigned as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-140; Reclassified a Patrol Frigate, PF-32, 25 June 1943; Laid down 12 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1443) at Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc., Superior, Wisc; Accepted by the Navy, 27 July 1944 at Boston Navy Yard; Commissioned USS Woonsocket (PF-32), 1 September 1944; Decommissioned 16 March 1946 and recommissioned in the Coast Guard as USCGC Woonsocket (PF 32) the same day; Decommissioned 18 September 1946 at New Orleans, LA; Struck from the Navy Register 14 May 1947; Transferred to Peru as Teniente Galvez (F 1); Renamed Galvez; Served the Peruvian Navy into the 1960s. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 176; 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 5,500 iHP Beloit Iron Works steam engines, two shafts.

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USS Woonsocket (PF 32)
Woonsocket 50k - Joseph P. Heyde, RMC, USCG, Ret.
Woonsocket 48k - Joseph P. Heyde, RMC, USCG, Ret.
Woonsocket 66k 18 September 1944 Robert Hurst
Teniente Galvez (F 1)
Woonsocket 51k c. 1951
Peruvian Navy photo		 Robert Hurst
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