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PG-169 / PF-61 Manitowoc


Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Gunboat (PG-169); Redesignated Patrol Frigate (PF-61), 15 April 1943; Laid down 26 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisc.; Launched 30 November 1943; Commissioned USS Manitowoc (PF-61), 5 December 1944 at Boston Mass; Decommissioned 14 March 1946 at Boston and Recommissioned into the Coast Guard the same day; Decommisisoned by the Coast Guard, 3 September 1946 at New Orleans, LA; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown) and turned over to the State Department, Liquidation Commission; Final Disposition, sold 25 March 1947 to France, renamed Le Brix (F-15), fate scrapped 1958.

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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