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Newport (PF 27)
ex-PG-135

Note: Newport was manned by the Coast Guard during World War II, and by the Navy during the Korean War.

Newport 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 Gunboat (PG-135); Redesignated Patrol Frigate (PF-27), 15 April 1943; Laid down 5 June 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 15 August 1943; Completed and commissioned USS Newport (PF-27), 8 September 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned 9 September 1945 at Cold Harbor Alaska; Transferred under the Lend Lease Program to the USSR 10 September 1945 as EK-27; Returned to U.S. custody 14 November 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 27 July 1950 at Yokosuka; Decommissioned 30 April 1952 at Yokosuka; Transferred on loan to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 1 October 1953; renamed Kaede (PF-13); Redesignated PF-293, 1 September 1957; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1961; Transferred outright to Japan 28 August 1962; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Service Craft, YAC-17, 31 March 1966; Decommissioned 31 March 1972; Returned to U.S. custody 20 May 1975. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20kts; Complement 190; Armament three 3"/50AA gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts , nine 20mm guns, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion, two 5,500 iHP turbines, two shafts,
three boilers.
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