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PF-34
ex-Long Beach (PF 34)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Victor - Victor

ex-PG-142

Long Beach served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

(MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) The second Long Beach was laid down 19 March 1943 as Patrol Gunboat, PG-142 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Wilmington, CA

Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-34, 15 April 1943

Launched 5 May 1943

Commissioned USS Long Beach (PF-34), 8 September 1943

Decommissioned 12 July 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska, leased to the Soviet Union the same day and renamed EK-2

Assigned to the Pacific Fleet 23 July 1945

Participated in the landing of troops at Seisin, Japan 14 August 1945 and at Maoku 20 August 1945

Awarded the Guards Rank 26 August 1945

Returned to U.S. custody 17 February 1950 at Yokosuka, Japan

Loaned to Japan 30 November 1953 and renamed Shii (PF-17)

Name Long Beach canceled 15 February 1957 so it could be assigned to the nuclear propulsion guided missile cruiser CGN-9

Reclassified PF-297, 1 September 1957

Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1961

Transferred outright to Japan 28 August 1962

Was to be decommissioned in January 1967

Reclassified as an Auxiliary Service Craft, YAS-44, 31 March 1967

Decommissioned 31 March 1968

Returned to U.S. custody 12 July 1971 and reclassified PF-34

Scrapped.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,430 t. (lt), 2,415 t. (fl)

Length 303' 11"

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 gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, eight depth charge projectors and one Hedgehog depth charge projector

Propulsion: Two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Long Beach (PF 34)
	23k	U.S. Coast Guard photo	Joe Radigan
	51k	c. 1943	Courtesy USS Long Beach Reunion Association
	98k	Underway in 1943 Photo from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives Photo 26-G-12-21-43(3) Naval History and Heritage Command photo	Robert Hurst
EK-2
	83k	EK-2 at anchor at an unidentified Soviet Far Eastern Fleet base Photo from "Raising The Red Banner: The Pictorial History of Stalin's Fleet 1920-1945" by Vladimir Yakubov and Richard Worth	Robert Hurst
Shii (PF 297)
	46k	25 November 1962 Nagaura, Japan Photo from The Naval Data Base	Robert Hurst
	32k	31 October 1965 Kobe, Japan Photo from The Naval Data Base
	33k	c. 1967