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Bath (PF 55)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Yankee - Tango

ex-PG-163

Bath served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-163; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-55, 15 April 1943; Laid down 23 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at Froemming Brothers Inc., Milwaukee, Wisc.; Launched 14 November 1943; Commissioned USS Bath (PF-55), 1 September 1944; Decommissioned 12 July 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska; Transferred under the Lend-Lease Program 13 July 1945 to the Soviet Union as EK-11; Returned to U.S. custody 15 November 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Yokosuka; Transferred on loan to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 23 December 1953 as Maki (PF 298); Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1961; Permanently transferred to Japan 28 August 1962; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Training Craft, YTE-9, 31 March 1966; Decommissioned 31 March 1969; Returned to U.S. custody 12 July 1971; Sold for scrap 13 December 1971 to Chin Ho FA Steel and Iron Co., Ltd, of Taiwan.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Bean 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 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 J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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