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Orange (PF-43)



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Papa

ex-PG-151

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally assigned as Patrol Gunboat PG-151; Reclassified a Patrol Frigate, (PF-43), 15 April 1943; Laid down 7 July 1943 at Consolidated Steel, Los Angeles CA; Launched 6 August 1943; Commissioned USS Orange (PF-43), 1 January 1944; Decommissioned at Bremerton, WA 28 October 1946; Struck from the Naval Register 23 April 1947; Sold for scrap 17 September 1947 to the Alaska Junk Co. of Seattle, WA.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t (lt), 2,415 t. (fl); Length 303' 11"; Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts; Complement 190; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts, nine 20mm gun mounts, two dct, eight dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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