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Moberly (PF 63)
ex-Scranton (PF 63)



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Zebra - Baker

ex-PG-171

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-171; Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-63, 15 April 1943; Named Scranton 25 June 1943; Laid down 3 November 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 26 January 1944; Renamed Moberly 28 June 1944; Commissioned USS Moberly (PF-63), 11 December 1944 at Houston, TX; Decommissioned 12 August 1946; Struck from the Navy Register 23 April 1947 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Sold for scrap 27 October 1947 to the Franklin Shipwrecking Co. of Hillside, NJ.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"; Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 214; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts (the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added), 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 240psi 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp verticle triple expansion J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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Scranton 55k Launching Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Scranton 96k "COAST GUARD DEPTH CHARGES SCORE IN LAST U-BOAT KILLING: Off Point Judith, Rhode Island, crewmen of the Coast Guard-manned frigate watch the surface boil as a pattern of depth charges scores the final kill in the long, uphill battle against Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. Working in teamwork with three Navy vessels, the Coast Guard ship destroyed the submarine on Sunday, May 6, 1945. The Moberly operates as a unit of the Atlantic Fleet." Moberly has just fired a hedgehog pattern as the charges drop in a circular pattern ahead of the frigate.
U.S. Coast Guard photo 4557		 Mike Green
Scranton 118k Moberly's hedgehog charges explode as they hit the ocean's floor.
U.S. Navy photo NRL(MOD) 29402		 Mike Green
Scranton 137k Whaleboat retrieving wreckage from the oil slick left after U-853 was sunk off Block Island by Moberly and Atherton
[DE 169], 6 May 1945.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 48878		 Mike Green
Scranton 103k "Scratch another U-boat." Crewman paints an "authorized" U-boat silouette aboard Moberly for receiving credit for the destruction of the U-853.
U.S. Coast Guard photo 2451		 Mike Green
Scranton 121k Off San Francisco, CA in early 1946.
Naval Historical Center photo NH 79077		 Mike Green
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