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PG-167 / PF-59 Beaufort


Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat PG-167; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate PF-59, 15 April 1943; Laid down under a Maritime Commission contract at Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched, 9 October 1943; Commissioned USS Beaufort (PF-59), 28 August 1944. Crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard, she operated off Newfoundland on plane guard and weather patrol duties from November 1944 until March 1946. Decommissioned, 19 April 1946 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown) and turned over to the State Department Liquidation Commission; Sold, 11 April 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 1,190 t.; Length, 303' 11"(oa); Beam 37' 6"; Draft 13' 8"; Speed 20kts; Complement 176; Armament three 3"/50, four 40mm (2x2), nine 20mm, one Hedgehog, eight depth charge projectors, two depth charge racks. For those frigates fitted out for weather patrol duty, the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added aft; Propulsion, two 5,500 iHP turbines, two shafts, three boilers.


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Beaufort 53k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 6 September 1944.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
US Navy Photo 19-N-70770
Naval Historical Center
Beaufort 53k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 6 September 1944.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
US Navy Photo 19-N-70771
Naval Historical Center
Beaufort 53k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 6 September 1944.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
US Navy Photo 19-N-70772
Naval Historical Center
Beaufort 53k Fantail awash in heavy North Atlantic seas. Patrol Frigates were considered to have better seakeeping qualities than the larger Destroyer Escorts. Joseph M. Lobo, ex-CM2/c, USCG and Jordynne Olivia Lobo, ex-AG3, USNR.

View the Beaufort (PF 59) Crew Photos
View the Beaufort (PF-59)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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