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Dearborn (PF 33)
ex-Toledo



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Alpha

ex-PG-141

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-141; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-33, 15 April 1943; Laid down 15 August 1943 as Toledo under a Maritime Commission contract by the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Renamed Dearborn; Launched, 27 September 1943; Commissioned USS Dearborn (PF-33), 10 September 1944; Decommissioned, 5 June 1946 at Charleston, SC; Sold for scrap 8 July 1947.

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 Diamond Iron Works steam engines, two shafts.

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Dearborn 73k Courtesy of Ships Cook 2/c, Fred E. Murrary. Kevin Rauth, ETCS(SS), USN, Ret.
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