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Lorain (PF 93)
ex-Roanoke (PG 201)


Lorain was manned by a Coast Giard crew during World War II


Lorain served the Navies of the United States and France.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as the Patrol Gunboat Roanoke (PG-201); Redesignated a Patrol Frigate PF-93, 15 April 1943; Laid down, 25 October 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Ohio; Renamed Lorain, 7 February 1944; Commissioned USS Lorain (PF-93), 15 January 1945 at Baltimore, MD; Decommissioned, 14 March 1946 at Boston, MA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold to France, 26 March 1947 and renamed La Place (F-13); Sunk by a mine 16 September 1950 off St. Malo, France.

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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Lorain 42k Under construction Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Lorain 53k Launching
18 March 1944
Russ Hartley
Lorain 49k Departing Lorain, Ohio
c. 1945
Murray Thompson
Covington 91k Covington (PF 56), at left, and Lorain 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
Mike Green

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