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Rockford (PF-48)



Call sign:
November - Zulu - Whiskey - Sierra

ex-PG-156

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally assigned as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-156; Reclassified a , PF-48, 25 June 1943; Laid down, 28 August 1943 at Consolidated Steel, Los Angeles, CA; Launched, 27 September 1943; Commissioned USS Rockford (PF-48), 6 March 1944; Decommissioned 27 August 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska and leased to the Soviet Union as EK-20 under the Lend-Lease Program the same day; Returned to U.S. custody at Yokosuka, Japan, 1 November 1949; Transferred 23 October 1950 on loan to South Korea as Apnok (62); Irreparably damage by collision 21 May 1952; Returned to U.S. custody 3 September 1952; Struck from the Naval Register, 26 May 1952; Sunk as a target 30 September 1953.

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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Rockford 94k Off Naval Operating Base Adak, Alaska, 30 January 1945. Her camouflage paint is Measure 32, Design 16d.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection.
U.S. Navy photo NH 94146		 Naval Historical Center
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