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Lorain (PF 93)
ex-Roanoke (PF 93)



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Papa - Alpha

ex-Roanoke (PG 201)


Lorain served the Navies of the United States and France.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as the Patrol Gunboat, Roanoke (PG-201); Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-93, 15 April 1943; Laid down 25 October 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Ohio; Renamed Lorain, 7 February 1944; Launched 18 March 1944; Commissioned USS Lorain (PF-93), 15 January 1945 at Baltimore, MD; Decommissioned, 14 March 1946 at Boston, MA; Sold to France 26 March 1947 as La Place (F-13); Sunk by a mine 16 September 1950 off St. Malo, France.

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, 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 Valley Iron Works engines, two shafts.

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USS Lorain (PF 93)
Lorain 42k Under construction Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Lorain 53k 18 March 1944
Launching		 Russ Hartley
Lorain 49k c. 1945
Departing Lorain, Ohio		 Murray Thompson
Covington 91k Covington (PF 56), at left, and Lorain docked at New York City, 1946. The original photograph is dated 11 May 1946, when the ships were on loan to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
U.S. Navy Photo NH 79870		 Mike Green
La Place (F 13)
Lorain 56k . .
Lorain 150k 31 May 1998
Artist's depiction of La Place's hulk		 .
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