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Gallup (PF-47)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Whiskey

ex-PG-155

Gallup served the Navies of the United States, the USSR and Thailand.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-155; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-47, 15 April 1943; Laid down 18 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Consolidated Steel Corp, Ltd., Los Angeles, CA.; Launched, 17 September 1943; Commissioned USS Gallup (PF-47), 29 February 1944 at San Pedro, CA; Decommissioned, 26 August 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska; Transferred under the Lend-Lease Program to the Soviet Union as EK-19; Returned to U.S. custody, 14 November 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Yokosuka; Recommissioned, 18 October 1950; Decommissioned 29 October 1951 and transferred on loan under the Mutual Assistance Program to Thailand as HTMS Prasae (PF 2); Reclassified PF-412; Struck from the Thai Navy Register and decommissioned 22 June 2000. Preserved as a memorial at Sattahib Naval Base. She was towed to the Prasae river on 22 December 2003 and sit on a landlocked display 27 December 2003 as the HTMS Prasae Memorial at the mouth of the Prasae river, Rayong province (about 300 km. east of Bangkok) by the Prasae river Communities Committee. Her original three US. 3”/50 guns were preserved by the Royal Thai Navy for spare part (this gun is still in use on some ships) and replaced onboard by an older Bofors 75/51 mm guns. A pair of single Bofors 40/60 mm AA guns were also removed, nine Oerlikon 20mm. guns still remain.

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.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Gallup (PF 47)
	34k	In dry dock	Stinson Duvall
HTMS Prasae (PF 2)
	77k	Glendale (PF 36) and Gallup fly the flags of Thailand, during transfer ceremonies at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 29 October 1951. Both ships are still wearing their U.S. Navy numbers. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center. U.S. Navy photo NH 97102	Fred Weiss
	55k	c. 1965	Robert Hurst
HTMS Prasae (PF 412)
	100k	25 September 2006	NyeNAVA
	158k	25 September 2006	NyeNAVA
	126k	25 September 2006	NyeNAVA
	227k	25 September 2006	NyeNAVA
	148k	25 September 2006	NyeNAVA

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation

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