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PG-164 / PF-56 Covington


Covington served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Gunboat PG-164; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate PF-56, 15 April 1943; Laid down under a Maritime Commission contract, at Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 15 July 1943; Commissioned USS Covington (PF-56), 17 October 1944; Decommissioned 16 March 1946 at Charleston, SC and loaned to the Coast Guard; Recommissioned into the Coast Guard the same
day; Returned to U.S. Navy custody 17 September 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in April 1947 and turned over to the State Departments Liquidation Commission; Transferred to Ecuador 28 August 1947 and renamed Guayas; Decommissioned in 1972. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20kts; Complement 176; Armament two 3"/50AA gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts , nine 20mm guns, 1 Hedgehog depth charge projector; eight Y-gun depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion, two 5,500 iHP turbines,
two shafts, three boilers.
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Underway in 1945. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. U.S. Navy Photo NH 79001 |
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Covington, at left, and USS Lorain (PF-93) 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 |
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Guayas photographed circa the later 1940s or early 1950s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph U.S. Navy Photo NH 45337 |
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