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Evansville (PF 70)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Xray - Quebec

ex-PG-178

Evansville 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-178; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-70, 15 April 1943; Laid down 28 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at Leatham D. Smith Shipyard, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched 27 November 1943; Commissioned USS Evansville (PF-70), 4 December 1944; Decommissioned 9 September 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska; Transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Program 4 September 1945 as EK-28; Soviet custody assumed 10 September 1945; Returned to U.S. custody at Yokosuka, Japan in 1949; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 29 July 1950; Decommissioned 28 February 1953; Transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 31 October 1953 as Keyaki (PF 295); Reclassified as an Auxiliary Stock Vessel, YAC-21, 31 March 1970; Decommissioned 31 March 1976; Returned to U.S. custody 15 October 1976; Scrapped in 1977.

Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 176; Armament three 3"/50 dual purpose mounts (For those frigates fitted out for weather patrol duty, the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added aft), two twin 40mm mounts, nine 20mm, one Hedgehog, eight depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp Diamond Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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