The Tacoma class was a class of 96 patrol frigates which served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Originally classified as gunboats (PG), they were reclassified as patrol frigates (PF) on 15 April 1943. The class is named for its lead ship, Tacoma, a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) S2-S2-AQ1 design, which in turn was named for the city of Tacoma, Washington. Twenty-one ships were transferred to the British Royal Navy, in which they were known as Colony-class frigates, and twenty-eight ships were transferred under Lend-Lease to the Soviet Navy, where they were designated as storozhevoi korabl ("escort ships"), during World War II. All Tacoma-class ships in US service during World War II were manned by United States Coast Guard crews. Tacoma-class ships were transferred to the United States Coast Guard and various navies post-World War II.
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Design
editIn 1942, the success of German submarines against Allied shipping and the shortage of escorts with which to protect Allied sea lines of communication convinced US President Franklin D. Roosevelt of a need to engage mercantile shipbuilders in the construction of warships for escort duty. The United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM), which oversaw the wartime merchant shipbuilding program, proposed to meet this requirement by building a version of the British River-class frigate, a Royal Navy ship type based on a mercantile design in British shipyards experienced in building commercial ships.[3][4] Two River-class ships under construction in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as HMS Adur (for the Royal Navy) and HMCS Annan (for the Royal Canadian Navy), were transferred to the US Navy in 1942, prior to completion, as prototypes for the Tacoma class and became the Asheville-class Asheville (PF-1) and Natchez (PF-2), respectively.
The naval architecture firm of Gibbs & Cox, designed the Tacoma class by modifying the River class to American requirements. The Tacoma-class units were designed and armed to serve mostly as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) ships. They were distinguished from the River class primarily by their pole (instead of the British tripod) foremast and lighter main guns, 3-inch (76.2-millimetre)/50 caliber gun instead of the British 4-inch (102-millimetre)/40 caliber gun, and they had an American rather than British powerplant.
The Tacoma-class was designed to take advantage of American construction techniques employing prefabrication. Unlike most other types of warship, the Tacomas, like the Rivers, were built to mercantile standards. With the proven effectiveness of the River class on escort duty, MARCOM's goal was to allow commercial shipyards without prior experience of naval construction standards to build effective warships more cheaply and efficiently. MARCOM had hoped that the US Navy, some members of which doubted that the commercial shipyards could build a sturdy enough warship, would accept them because of the proven service record of the River-class ships which inspired their design.[3][4]
The resulting ships had a greater range than the superficially similar destroyer escorts, but the US Navy viewed them as decidedly inferior in all other respects. The Tacoma class had a much larger turning circle than a destroyer escort, lacked sufficient ventilation for warm-weather operations – a reflection of their original British design and its emphasis on operations in the North Atlantic Ocean – and were criticized as far too hot below decks, and, because of the mercantile style of their hulls, had far less resistance to underwater explosions than ships built to naval standards like the destroyer escorts.[4]
Like their predecessors Asheville and Natchez, the Tacoma-class ships built for the US Navy all were named after small cities in the United States.[3]
Construction program
editIn November 1942, MARCOM gave its West Coast Regional Office the responsibility for coordinating the construction of the ships of the Tacoma class, which were to be split between commercial shipyards on the United States West Coast and five shipyards on the Great Lakes, the latter in particular chosen because they had building ways available for use in the Tacoma program. MARCOM tendered a contract to Kaiser Cargo, Inc., of Oakland, California, to prepare detailed specifications based on the Gibbs & Cox design and to manage the overall construction program.[3]
On 8 December 1942, MARCOM contracted for 69 Tacoma-class ships, for which the US Navy dropped the British "corvette" designation in favor of classifying the Tacomas (along with the two Asheville-class ships that preceded them) as "patrol gunboats" (PG); on 15 April 1943, the two Ashevilles and all Tacomas were reclassified as "patrol frigates" (PF). Kaiser Cargo itself received an order for 12 ships; the Consolidated Steel Corporation, of Wilmington, California, received an order for 18; the American Ship Building Company, received an order for 11, with four to be built at Cleveland, Ohio, and eight at Lorain, Ohio; the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, of Superior, Wisconsin, received an order for 12; Froemming Brothers, Inc., of Milwaukee, received an order for four; the Globe Shipbuilding Company, of Superior, Wisconsin, received an order for eight; and the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, received an order for eight. American Shipbuilding later received an order for another six (four at Cleveland and two at Lorain), bringing the total orders for the US Navy to 79 ships, while the Walsh-Kaiser Company, of Providence, Rhode Island, received an order for 21 additional ships, all of which were to be transferred to the Royal Navy, where they were known as the Colony class, bringing the total planned construction to 100 units. Four ships scheduled for construction at Lorain, by American Shipbuilding, Stamford, Macon, Lorain, and Milledgeville (ex-Vallejo), were cancelled in December 1943 and February 1944, dropping the ultimate total of Tacoma-class ships built to 96.[1][3]
From the beginning, the construction program was plagued by difficulties which caused it to fall far behind schedule. Unfamiliar with the capabilities of the Great Lakes yards, Kaiser Cargo used prefabrication techniques unsuited to the Great Lakes yards' smaller cranes and had to rework them. Ice prevented patrol frigates built on the Great Lakes from transiting the Soo Locks on the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, in the winter and spring, requiring them to be floated down the Mississippi River on pontoons to New Orleans or Houston for fitting out, often doubling their construction time. Delays became so lengthy that shipyards began to deliver the ships in such an incomplete state that shakedown and post-shakedown periods of repair and alteration took months for some of them. Bilge keels that cracked in rough seas or cold weather, failures in the welds holding the deckhouse to the deck, engine trouble, and ventilation problems plagued all of the ships. As a result, no Tacoma-class ship was commissioned until late in 1943, none were ready for service until 1944, and the last one, USS Alexandria (PF-18), was not commissioned until March 1945. The ships Consolidated Steel built proved the most reliable, while Kaiser Cargo-built units were the most trouble-prone; among the latter, Tacoma took ten months of shakedown and repairs to be ready after her commissioning, and Pasco proved equally difficult to make ready for service.[5]
Service
editBy the time the first Tacoma-class ships were ready for front-line service in 1944, the US Navy's requirement for them had passed, thanks to a decline in the threat from Axis submarines, and the availability of ample numbers of destroyers and destroyer escorts, which the Navy regarded as much superior to the Tacoma class. The Navy crewed all of the Tacoma-class ships with United States Coast Guard personnel. The Consolidated Steel-built ships, thanks to their superior reliability and performance, all saw service in the Pacific war zone where one, Rockford, teamed with the minesweeper Ardent to sink the Japanese submarine I-12 in November 1944, but the US Navy generally relegated the patrol frigates to local training and escort responsibilities, and to duty as weather ships, for which the aft-mounted 3-inch gun was removed in order to allow the installation of a weather balloon hangar.[3][4]
The United States built an additional 21 Tacoma-class ships for the United Kingdom for service in the Royal Navy, where they were known as the Colony class, and all but one of them initially received British names, rather than the names of small US cities, while still US Navy ships; they were returned to the United States between 1946 and 1948. Eighteen of these were quickly scrapped, but two were sold to Egypt, for use as civilian passenger ships, and one to Argentina, for service as a warship in the Argentine Navy.[6][7][8]
As a part of Project Hula, a secret 1945 program that transferred 149 US Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan, the US Navy transferred 28 Tacoma-class ships to the Soviet Navy between July and September 1945. They were the largest, most heavily armed, and most expensive ships transferred during the program. At least some of them saw action in the Soviet offensive against Japanese forces in Northeast Asia, in August 1945. The transfer of two more, Annapolis and Bangor, was cancelled when transfers halted on 5 September 1945. One of the transferred ships, EK-3 (ex-Belfast), ran aground and was damaged beyond economical repair in a November 1948 storm off Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but the Soviet Union returned the other 27 frigates to the United States in October and November 1949.[9]
The US Navy quickly decommissioned 23 Tacoma-class ships after the end of World War II, after only very brief US Navy careers, and sold them for scrap in 1947 and 1948, although one, the former Charlotte, was saved from the scrapyard to become a Brazilian merchant ship. The 27 ships the Soviet Union returned in 1949 went into the US Navy's Pacific Reserve Fleet in Japan; 13 of them were recommissioned for US Navy service in the Korean War, but all 27 soon were transferred to the navies of other countries. The other 25 Tacoma-class ships never returned to service in the US Navy and also were transferred to foreign countries. In the post-World War II era, Tacoma-class patrol frigates operated in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Republic of Korea Navy, and the Argentine, Belgian, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, French, Mexican, Royal Netherlands, Peruvian, and Royal Thai navies, and one ship operated as a civilian weather ship for the government of the Netherlands.[4] In foreign navies, many Tacoma-class ships survived into the 1960s and 1970s, and the last operator of Tacoma-class patrol frigates, Thailand, did not retire its two ships until 2000.
List of ships
editThe Tacoma-class ships, listed in order of US Navy hull number, and their dates of active service and fates follow.[1][7][8]
| Ship name | Hull no. | Dates of U.S. Navy service | Loan in war | Later loan | Final disposition |
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| Tacoma | PF-3 | (1943–1945, 1950–1951) | To Soviet Navy as EK-11 (1945–1949) | To Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Taedong (PF-63) (1951–1973) | Preserved in South Korea, 1973 |
| Sausalito | PF-4 | (1944–1945, 1950–1952) | To Soviet Navy as EK-16 (1945–1949) | To Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Imchin (PF-66) (1952–1973) | Scrapped, 1973 |
| Hoquiam | PF-5 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy as EK-13 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Nae Tong (PF-65) (1951–1973) | Scrapped, 1973 |
| Pasco | PF-6 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-12 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kashi (PF-283) (1953–1967) | South Korea for parts, 1969 |
| Albuquerque | PF-7 | (1943–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy as EK-14 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Tochi (PF-296) (1951–1969) | United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Everett | PF-8 | (1944–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy as EK-15 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kiri (PF-291) (1953–1975) | United States for disposal, 1976 |
| Pocatello | PF-9 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Brownsville | PF-10 | (1944–1946) | To US Coast Guard as USCGC Brownsville (1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | |
| Grand Forks | PF-11 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Casper | PF-12 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pueblo | PF-13 | (1944–1946) | Dominican Navy as Presidente Troncoso (F103) (later Gregorio Luperón) (1948–1979) | Scrapped, 1982 | |
| Grand Island | PF-14 | (1944–1945) | Cuban Navy as Maximo Gomez (F303) (1947-1970s?) | Unknown | |
| Annapolis | PF-15 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy as ARM General Vicente Guerrero (later ARM Río Usumacinta) (1947–1964) | Scrapped, 1964 | |
| Bangor | PF-16 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard as USCGC Bangor (1946) To Mexican Navy as ARM General José María Morelos (later ARM Golfo de Tehuantepec) |
Scrapped, 1964 | |
| Key West | PF-17 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Alexandria | PF-18 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Huron | PF-19 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Gulfport | PF-20 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Bayonne | PF-21 | (1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy as EK-25 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Buna (PF-294) (1953–1965) | Sunk as target, 1968 |
| Gloucester | PF-22 | (1943–1945, 1950–1952) | Soviet Navy as EK-26 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Tsuge (PF-292) (1953–1968) | United States for disposal, 1969 |
| Shreveport | PF-23 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Muskegon | PF-24 | (1944–1946) | To US Coast Guard as USCGC Muskegon (1946) French Navy as Mermoz (F714) (1947-late 1950s) |
Scrapped, late 1950s | |
| Charlottesville | PF-25 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-1 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Matsu (PF-286) (1953–1969) | United States for disposal, 1972 |
| Poughkeepsie | PF-26 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-27 (1945–1949) | Japanese Merchant Marine (1951), then Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Momi (PF-284) (1953–1969) | South Korea for parts, 1969 |
| Newport | PF-27 | (1944–1945, 1950–1952) | Soviet Navy as EK-28 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kaede (PF-293) (1953–1972) | United States for disposal, 1975 |
| Emporia | PF-28 | (1944–1946) | French Navy as Le Verrier (F716) (1947–1958) | Scrapped, 1958 | |
| Groton | PF-29 | (1944–1946) | Colombian Navy as ARC Almirante Padilla (F-11) (1947–1965) | Stricken, 1965 | |
| Hingham | PF-30 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Grand Rapids | PF-31 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Woonsocket | PF-32 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard as USCGC Woonsocket (1946) Peruvian Navy as BAP Teniente Gálvez (F-1) (later BAP Gálvez) (1948–1961) |
Scrapped | |
| Dearborn (ex-Toledo) | PF-33 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Long Beach | PF-34 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-2 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Shii (PF-297) (1953–1967) | Scrapped, 1967 |
| Belfast | PF-35 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-3 (1945–1948) | Wrecked, 1948 | |
| Glendale | PF-36 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy as EK-6 (1945–1949) | Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Tachin (PF-1) (1951–2000) | Preserved, 2001 |
| San Pedro | PF-37 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-5 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kaya (PF-288) (1953–1967) | To United States for disposal, 1978; sunk as target |
| Coronado | PF-38 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-8 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Sugi (PF-285) (1953–1969) | To United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Ogden | PF-39 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-10 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kusu (PF-281) (1953–1976) | To United States for disposal, 1977 |
| Eugene | PF-40 | (1944–1946) | Cuban Navy as José Martí (F301) (1947–1976) | Scrapped, 1976 | |
| El Paso | PF-41 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Van Buren | PF-42 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Orange | PF-43 | (1944–1946) | Sold, 1947; scrapped, 1948 | ||
| Corpus Christi | PF-44 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hutchinson | PF-45 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy as ARM California (1947–1964) | Sold for scrapping, 1964 | |
| Bisbee | PF-46 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy as EK-17 (1945–1949) | Colombian Navy as ARC Capitán Tono (F-12) (1952–1963) | Scrapped, 1963 |
| Gallup | PF-47 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy as EK-22 (1945–1949) | Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Prasae (PF-2) (1951–2000) | Preserved, 2000 |
| Rockford | PF-48 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-18 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Apnok (PF-62) (1950–1952) | To United States for disposal, 1952; sunk as target, 1953 |
| Muskogee | PF-49 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-19 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy as ROKS Duman (PF-61) (1950) | Unknown |
| Carson City | PF-50 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-20 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Sakura (PF-290) (1953–1971) | Sold for scrapping, 1971 |
| Burlington | PF-51 | (1944–1945, 1951–1952) | Soviet Navy as EK-21 (1945–1949) | Colombian Navy as ARC Almirante Brión (F-14) (1953–1968) | Scrapped, 1968 |
| Allentown | PF-52 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-9 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Ume (PF-289) (1953–1970) | To United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Machias | PF-53 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-4 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Nara (PF-282) (1953–1966) | Sold for scrapping, 1969 |
| Sandusky | PF-54 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-7 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Nire (PF-287) (1953–1970) | To United States for disposal, 1970 |
| Bath | PF-55 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy as EK-29 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Maki (PF-298) (1953–1971) | Sold for scrapping, 1971 |
| Covington | PF-56 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard as USCGC Covington (1946) Ecuadorian Navy as BAE Guayas (E-21) (1947–1972) |
Stricken, 1974 | |
| Sheboygan | PF-57 | (1944–1946) | Belgian Navy as Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet (F910) (1947–1957) | Scrapped, 1959 | |
| Abilene (ex-Bridgeport) | PF-58 | (1944–1946) | the Netherlands civilian government as SS Cirrus (1947–1969) | Sold for scrapping, 1969 | |
| Beaufort | PF-59 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Charlotte | PF-60 | (1944–1946) | Sold, 1947; became Brazilian coastal passenger ship; scrapped 1965 | ||
| Manitowoc | PF-61 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard as USCGC Manitowoc (1946) French Navy as Le Brix (F715) (1947–1958) |
Scrapped, 1958 | |
| Gladwyne (ex-Worcester) | PF-62 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy as ARM Papaloapan (1947–1965) | Scrapped, 1965 | |
| Moberly (ex-Scranton) | PF-63 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Knoxville | PF-64 | (1944–1946) | Dominican Navy as Presidente Peynado (F104) (later Capitán General Pedro Santana) (1947–1979) | Scrapped, 1979 | |
| Uniontown (ex-Chattanooga) | PF-65 | (1944–1945) | Argentine Navy as ARA Sarandí (P-33) (1947–1968) | Unknown | |
| Reading | PF-66 | (1944–1946) | Argentine Navy as ARA Heroína (P-32) (1947–1966) | Scrapped, 1966 | |
| Peoria | PF-67 | (1945–1946) | Cuban Navy as Cuban frigate Antonio Maceo (F302) (1947–1975) | Sunk as target, 1975 | |
| Brunswick | PF-68 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Davenport | PF-69 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1946 | ||
| Evansville | PF-70 | (1944–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy as EK-30 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Keyaki (PF-295) (1953–1976) | To United States for disposal, 1976; scrapped, 1977 |
| New Bedford | PF-71 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hallowell (ex-Machias) | PF-72 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Anguilla (K500) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hamond | PF-73 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Antigua (K501) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping | ||
| Hargood | PF-74 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Ascension (K502) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hotham | PF-75 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Bahamas (K503)) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Halstead | PF-76 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Barbados (K504) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hannam | PF-77 | 1943–1945 Royal Navy as HMS Caicos (K505) | To Argentine Navy as ARA Trinidad (P-34) / ARA Santísima Trinidad / ARA Comodoro Augusto Lasserre (Q-9) (1947–1969) | Scrapped, 1971 | |
| Harland | PF-78 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Cayman (K506) | Returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947 | ||
| Harman | PF-79 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Dominica (K507) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Harvey | PF-80 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Labuan (K584) (ex-Gold Coast) | Returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1957 | ||
| Holmes | PF-81 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Tobago (K585) (ex-Hong Kong) | Returned to United States, 1946; Egyptian civilian passenger ship, 1950–1956; sunk as blockship, 1956 | ||
| Hornby | PF-82 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Montserrat (K586) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hoste | PF-83 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Nyasaland (K587) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Howett | PF-84 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Papua (K588) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold, 1947; Egyptian passenger vessel, 1950–1956 | ||
| Pilford | PF-85 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Pitcairn (K589) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pasley (later St. Helena) | PF-86 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS St. Helena (K590) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Patton | PF-87 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Sarawak (K591) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pearl | PF-88 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Seychelles (K592) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Phillimore | PF-89 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Perim (K593) (ex-Sierra Leone) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Popham | PF-90 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Somaliland (K594) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Peyton | PF-91 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Tortola (K595) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Prowse | PF-92 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Zanzibar (K596) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Lorain (ex-Roanoke) | PF-93 | (1945–1946) | French Navy as La Place (F713) (1947–1950) | Sunk by mine, 1950 | |
| Milledgeville (ex-Sitka) | PF-94 | (1945–1946) | Sold, 1947; scrapped, 1948 | ||
| Stamford | PF-95 | — | — | — | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 |
| Macon | PF-96 | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 | |||
| Lorain (ex-Vallejo) | PF-97 | Cancelled, 11 February 1944 | |||
| Milledgeville | PF-98 | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 | |||
| Orlando | PF-99 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Racine | PF-100 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Greensboro | PF-101 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1948 | ||
| Forsyth | PF-102 | (1945–1946) | To US Coast Guard as USCGC Forsyth (1946) To the Netherlands civilian government as SS Cumulus (1947–1963) |
Scrapped, 1969 |
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, New York: Mayflower Books, 1980, ISBN 0-8317-0303-2, pp. 62, 148–149.
- ^ "The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Tacoma Class, U.S. Frigates". www.pwencycl.kgbudge.com. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 22.
- ^ a b c d e Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, New York: Mayflower Books, 1980, ISBN 0-8317-0303-2, pp. 148–149.
- ^ Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, pp. 22–23.
- ^ Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, New York: Mayflower Books, 1980, ISBN 0-8317-0303-2, p. 62.
- ^ a b "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships". Archived from the original on 30 January 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2006.
- ^ Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, pp. 12, 22–23, 35, 37–38, 39.
External links
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- PG-111/PF-3 Tacoma NavSource Online
- USS Tacoma history.navy.mil