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Gloucester (PF 22)
ex-PG-130


Gloucester served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Laid down as a Gunboat PG-130 under a Maritime Commission Contract, at Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate PF-22, 15 April 1943; Launched 12 July 1943; Commissioned USS Gloucester (PF-22), 10 December 1943; Decommissioned 3 September 1945; Transferred 4 September 1945 under the Lend Lease Program to the USSR at Cold Harbor, Alaska and renamed EK-26; Returned to U.S. custody 31 October 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 11 October 1950 at Yokosuka; Decommissioned 15 September 1952; Transferred on loan to Japan 1 October 1953 and renamed Tsuge (PF-292); Struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1961; Permanent custody transferred to Japan in March 1962; Decommissioned 31 March 1968; Returned to U.S. custody 31 March 1969. 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, one Hedgehog depth charge projector, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks; Propulsion two reciprocating steam engines, two shafts.


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