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USCGC Forsyth (PF 102)
ex-USS Forsyth (PF 102)



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Juliet - Charlie

ex-PG-210


Forsyth served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1). Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-210; Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-102, 15 April 1943; Laid down 6 December 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Ohio; Launched, 20 May 1944; Delivered and commissioned USS Forsyth (PF-102), 11 February 1945 at Curtis Bay, MD; Decommissioned, 14 March 1946 while at sea and immediately recommissioned into the Coast Guard as USCGC Forsyth (PF 102); Decommissioned 2 August 1946 at New Orleans, LA and returned to U.S. Navy custody; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal; Sold to The Netherlands in 1947 and renamed Cumulus; Served as a Weather Ship until 1963; Scrapped
in 1969.

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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USS Forsyth (PF 102)
Forsyth 74k Launching Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Forsyth 34k c. 1945
Line drawing of Forsyth		 Joe Radigan
SS Cumulus
Forsyth 42k Cumulus Piet Y de Vries
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