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Evansville (PF 70)
ex-PG-178

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


Evansville 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 Patrol Gunboat PG-178; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate PF-70, 15 April 1943; Laid down under a Maritime Commission contract at Leatham D. Smith Shipyard, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched 17 November 1943; Commissioned USS Evansville (PF-70), 4 December 1944; Decommissioned 9 September 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska; Transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Program 4 September 1945 and renamed EK-28; Soviet custody assumed 10 September 1945; Returned to U.S. custody at Yokosuka, Japan in 1949; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka; Recommissioned 29 July 1950; Decommissioned 28 February 1953; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 31 October 1953 as Keyaki (PF 295); Reclassified as an Auxiliary Stock Vessel, YAC-21, 31 March 1970; Decommissioned 31 March 1976; Returned to U.S. custody 15 October 1976; Scrapped in 1977.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Bean 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20kts; Complement 190; Armament two 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 5,500 iHP turbines, two shafts, three boilers.


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