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Greensboro (PF 101)



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Charlie - Sugar

ex-PG-209

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

  • (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1). Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-209
  • Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-101, 15 April 1943
  • Laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1973) by the American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, Ohio
  • Launched 9 February 1944
  • Delivered and commissioned USS Greensboro (PF-101), 29 January 1945 at Curtis Bay, MD
  • Decommissioned 14 March 1946 at Boston, MA
  • Struck from the Navy Register 23 April 1947 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Sold for scrap 22 April 1948 to the Southern Shipbuilding Co. of New Orleans, LA
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists sales date as February 1948.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 1,430 t.
  • Length 303' 11"
  • Beam 37' 6"
  • Draft 13' 8"
  • Speed 20.3 kts.
  • Complement 176
  • Armament: Two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts (the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added), two twin 40mm gun mounts, nine 20mm guns, one Hedgehog depth charge
    projector, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 240psi 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp verticle triple expansion J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Greensboro 100k U.S. Coast Guard Photo Joseph M. Lobo, ex-CM2/c, USCG and Jordynne Olivia Lobo, ex-AG3, USNR
    Greensboro 94k Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 53780 Mike Green
    Greensboro 172k c. early 1945
    National Archives photo 26-G-2870
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Henry Parsons Kniskern, Jr., USCG29 January 1945 -23 March 1945
    02LT James S. Muzzy, USCG - USCGA Class of 1936
    Awarded the Legion of Merit (1944)    		23 March 1945 - 23 May 1945
    03LCDR Henry E. Steel, USCGR23 May 1945 - 11 September 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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