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Long Beach served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan.
Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Laid down 19 March 1943 as Patrol Gunboat, PG-142 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Wilmington, CA; Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-34, 15 April 1943; Launched 5 May 1943; Commissioned USS Long Beach (PF-34), 8 September 1943; Decommissioned at Cold Harbor, Alaska 12 July 1945 and leased to the USSR same day as EK-2; Returned to U.S. custody at Yokosuka, Japan in 1949; Loaned to Japan 30 November 1953 as Shii (PF-17); Name Long Beach canceled 15 February 1957 so it could be assigned to CGN-9; Reclassified PF-297, 1 September 1957; Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1961; Transferred outright to Japan 28 August 1962; Was to be decommissioned in January 1967; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Service Craft, YAS-44, 31 March 1967; Decommissioned 31 March 1968; Returned to U.S. custody 12 July 1971. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 1,430 t (lt), 2,415 t. (fl); Length 303' 11"; Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20.3 kts; Complement 190; Armament three single 3"/50 gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts, nine 20mm gun mounts, two dct, eight dcp, one dcp (hh).
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