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Milledgeville (PF-94)
ex-Sitka (PF 94)

Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Charlie - Baker
ex-PG-202
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-202; Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-94, 15 April 1943; Named Sitka 11 October 1943; Laid down 9 November 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain Ohio; Renamed Milledgeville 7 February 1944; Launched 5 April 1944; Placed in service 16 November 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Placed out of service 24 November 1944 at Charleston, SC; Commissioned USS Milledgeville (PF-94), 18 January 1945 at Charleston; Decommissioned 21 August 1946 at Boston, MA; Sold for scrap 9 April 1946 to the Southern Scrap Material Co. of New Orleans; Struck from the Navy Register 23 April 1947; Scrapped 25 March 1948.
Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"; Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts.; Complement 176; 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 Valley Iron Works engines, two shafts.
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