Tacoma-class frigate

Class overview
USS Peoria (PF-67) in June 1945.
Builders:	American Shipbuilding Company, Cleveland, Ohio (7 ships) and Lorain, Ohio (6 ships) Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California (18 ships) Froemming Brothers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (4 ships) Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin (8 ships) Kaiser Cargo, Richmond, California (12 ships) Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (8 ships) Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island (21 ships) Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin (12 ships)^[1]
Operators:	United States Navy United States Coast Guard Royal Navy Soviet Navy Argentine Navy Belgian Navy Colombian Navy Cuban Navy Dominican Navy Ecuadorian Navy French Navy Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Republic of Korea Navy Mexican Navy Royal Netherlands Navy Peruvian Navy Royal Thai Navy
Preceded by:	Asheville-class patrol frigate
Succeeded by:	none
Subclasses:	Colony class
Built:	1943–1945
In commission:	1943–2000
Planned:	100
Completed:	96
Cancelled:	4
Lost:	2
Retired:	94
Preserved:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Frigate
Displacement:	1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
Length:	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft:	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion:	2 × boilers 2 × vertical triple expansion reciprocating steam engines, 2 shafts
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	190
Armament:	• 3 × 3 inch/50 AA guns (3x1) • 4 × 40 mm guns (2x2) • 9 × 20 mm (9x1) • 1 × Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar • 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors • 2 × depth charge racks

The Tacoma class of patrol frigates served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Named for the lead ship of the class, USS Tacoma (PF-3) – which in turn was named for the city of Tacoma, Washington – ships of the class also served in the British Royal Navy – in which they were known as Colony-class frigates – and the Soviet Navy during World War II. Tacoma-class ships served in the United States Coast Guard and various navies post-World War II.

Design

In 1942, the success of German submarines against Allied shipping and the shortage of escorts with which to protect Allied sea lines of communication convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt of a need to engage mercantile shipbuilders in the construction of warships for escort duty. The United States Maritime Commission, which oversaw the wartime merchant shipbuilding program, proposed to meet this requirement by building a version of the British River-class corvette, a Royal Navy ship type built based on a mercantile design in British shipyards experienced in building commercial ships.^[2]^[3] Two River-class ships under construction in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as HMS Adur (K269) (for the Royal Navy) and HMCS Annan (for the Royal Canadian Navy, were transfered to the U.S. Navy in 1942 prior to completion as prototypes for the Tacoma class and became the Asheville-class USS Asheville (PF-1) and USS 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 antisubmarine warfare 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-mm) instead of the British 4-inch (102-mm), and they had an American rather than British powerplant and were desgned 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, the Maritime Commission hoped that the mercantile design of the Tacomas would allow the commercial shipyards to build them more cheaply and efficiently and that the U.S. Navy, some members of which doubted that the commercial shipyard could build a sturdy enough warship, would accept them because of the proven service record of the River-class ships which inspired their design.^[2]^[3]

The resulting ships had a greater range than the superficially similar destroyer escorts, but the U.S. 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.^[3]

Like their predecessors Asheville and Natchez, the Tacoma-class ships built for the U.S. Navy all were named after small cities in the United States.^[2]

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Construction program

In November 1942, the Maritime Commission gave its West Coast Regional Office the responsibility for coordinating the construction of the Tacoma-class ships, which was 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. The Maritime Commission 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.^[2]

On 8 December 1942, the Maritime Commission contracted for 69 Tacoma-class ships, for which the U.S. 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 Shipbuilding 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, Wisconsin, received an order for four; the Globe Shipbuilding Company of Superior, Wisconsin, received an order for eight; and the Leatham 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 U.S. 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 – USS Stamford (PF-95), USS Macon (PF-96), USS Lorain (PF-97), and USS Milledgeville (PF-98) (ex-Vallejo) – were cancelled in December 1943 and February 1944, dropping the ultimate total of Tacoma-class ships built to 96.^[2]^[1]

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, Louisiana, or Houston, Texas, 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, USS Tacoma (PF-3) took ten months of shakedown and repairs to be ready after her commissioning, and USS Pasco (PF-6) proved equally difficult to make ready for service.^[4]

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Service

By the time the first Tacoma-class ships were ready for front-line service in 1944, the U.S. 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, USS Rockford (PF-48), teamed with the minesweeper USS Ardent (AM-340) to sink the Japanese submarine I-12 in November 1944, but the U.S. Navy generally relegated the patrol frigates to local training and escort responsibilities and to duty as weather ships, for which some had their after armament removed in order to allow the installation of a weather balloon hangar.^[2]^[3]

As a part of Project Hula – a secret 1945 program that transferred 149 U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Territory of Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan – the U.S. 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 – USS Annapolis (PF-15) and USS Bangor (PF-16) – was cancelled when transfers halted on 5 September 1945. One of the transferred ships, EK-3 (ex-USS Belfast (PF-35)), 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.^[5]

The U.S Navy quickly decommissioned 23 Tacoma-class ships after the end of World War II after only very brief U.S. Navy careers and sold them for scrap in 1947 and 1948, although one, the former USS Charlotte (PF-60), was saved from the scrapyard to become a Brazilian merchant ship. The 27 ships the Soviet Union returned in 1949 went into the U.S. Navy's Pacific Reserve Fleet in Japan; 13 of them were recommissioned for U.S. 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 U.S. 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.^[3] 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.

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 frigates, and all but one of them initially received British names – rather than the names of small U.S. cities – while still U.S. Navy ships; they were returned to the United States between 1946 and 1948. Eighteen of these also 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]

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List of ships

The Tacoma-class ships, listed in order of U.S. Navy hull number, and their dates of active service and fates follow.^[1]^[7]^[8] (For an alphabetical listing by ship's name, open the "Tacoma-class frigate" navigation bar near the bottom of the article.)

USS Tacoma (PF-3): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1951; Republic of Korea Navy 1951-1973; preserved in South Korea
USS Sausalito (PF-4): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1952; Republic of Korea Navy 1952-1973; scrapped 1973
USS Hoquiam (PF-5): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1951; Republic of Korea Navy 1951-1973; scrapped 1973
USS Pasco (PF-6): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1967; to South Korea for parts 1969
USS Albuquerque (PF-7): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1953; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1969; to United States for disposal 1971
USS Everett (PF-8): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1953; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1975; to United States for disposal 1976
USS Pocatello (PF-9): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Brownsville (PF-10): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Grand Forks (PF-11): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Casper (PF-12): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Pueblo (PF-13): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Dominican Navy 1948-1979; scrapped 1982
USS Grand Island (PF-14): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Cuban Navy 1947-1970s?; final disposition unknown
USS Annapolis (PF-15): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Mexican Navy 1947-1964; scrapped 1964
USS Key West (PF-17): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Alexandria (PF-18): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Huron (PF-19): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Gulfport (PF-20): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Bayonne (PF-21): U.S. Navy 1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1953; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1965; sunk as target 1968
USS Gloucester (PF-22): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1952; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1968; to United States for disposal 1969
USS Shreveport (PF-23): U.S. Navy 1943-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Muskegon (PF-24): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; French Navy 1947-late 1950s; scrapped late 1950s
USS Charlottesville (PF-25): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1969; to United States for disposal 1972
USS Poughkeepsie (PF-26): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Shipping Control Authority for the Japanese Merchant Marine 1951; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1965; to South Korea for parts 1969
USS Newport (PF-27): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1952; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1972; to United States for disposal 1975
USS Emporia (PF-28): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; French Navy 1947-1958; scrapped 1958
USS Groton (PF-29): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Colombian Navy 1947-1965; stricken 1965
USS Hingham (PF-30): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Grand Rapids (PF-31): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Woonsocket (PF-32): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; Peruvian Navy 1948-1961; scrapped
USS Dearborn (PF-33) (ex-Toledo): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Long Beach (PF-34): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1967; scrapped 1967
USS Belfast (PF-35): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1948; wrecked 1948
USS Glendale (PF-36): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1951; Royal Thai Navy 1951-2000; preserved 2001
USS San Pedro (PF-37): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1977; to United States for disposal 1978; sunk as target
USS Coronado (PF-38): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1969; to United States for disposal 1971
USS Ogden (PF-39): U.S. Navy 1943-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1976; to United States for disposal 1977
USS Eugene (PF-40): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Cuban Navy 1947-1976; scrapped 1976
USS El Paso (PF-41): U.S. Navy 1943-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Van Buren (PF-42): U.S. Navy 1943-1946; sold for scrapping 1946
USS Orange (PF-43): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold 1947; scrapped 1948
USS Corpus Christi (PF-44): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hutchinson (PF-45): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Mexican Navy 1947-1964; scrapped 1964
USS Bisbee (PF-46): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1951; Colombian Navy 1952-1963; scrapped 1963
USS Gallup (PF-47): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1951; Royal Thai Navy 1951-2000; preserved 2000
USS Rockford (PF-48): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Republic of Korea Navy 1950-1952; to United States for disposal 1952; sunk as target 1953
USS Muskogee (PF-49): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; to Republic of Korea Navy 1950; final disposition unknown
USS Carson City (PF-50): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1971; to United States for disposal 1971
USS Burlington (PF-51): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1951-1952; Colombian Navy 1953-1968; scrapped 1968
USS Allentown (PF-52): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1970; to United States for disposal 1971
USS Machias (PF-53): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1966; sold for scrapping 1969
USS Sandusky (PF-54): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1970; to United States for disposal 1970
USS Bath (PF-55): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1971; sold for scrapping 1971
USS Covington (PF-56): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; Ecuadorian Navy 1947-1972; stricken 1974
USS Sheboygan (PF-57): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Belgian Navy 1947-1957; scrapped 1959
USS Abilene (PF-58) ex-Bridgeport: U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Royal Netherlands Navy 1947-1969; scrapped 1969
USS Beaufort (PF-59): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Charlotte (PF-60): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold 1947; became Brazilian coastal passenger ship; scrapped 1965
USS Manitowoc (PF-61): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; French Navy 1947-1958; scrapped 1958
USS Gladwyne (PF-62) ex-Worcester: U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Mexican Navy 1947-1965; scrapped 1965
USS Moberly (PF-63) ex-Scranton: U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Knoxville (PF-64): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Dominican Navy 1947-1979; scrapped 1979
USS Uniontown (PF-65) ex- Chattanooga: U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Argentine Navy 1947-1968; final disposition unknown
USS Reading (PF-66): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; Argentine Navy 1947-1966; scrapped 1966
USS Peoria (PF-67): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; Cuban Navy 1947-1975; sunk as target 1975
USS Brunswick (PF-68): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Davenport (PF-69): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; sold for scrapping 1946
USS Evansville (PF-70): U.S. Navy 1944-1945; Soviet Navy 1945-1949; U.S. Navy 1950-1953; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 1953-1976; to United States for disposal 1976; scrapped 1977
USS New Bedford (PF-71): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hallowell (PF-72) ex-Machias: To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Anguilla (K500) 1943-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hamond (PF-73): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Antigua (K501) 1943-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping
USS Hargood (PF-74): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Ascension (K502) 1943-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hotham (PF-75): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Bahamas (K503) 1943-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Halstead (PF-76): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Barbados (K504) 1943-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hannam (PF-77): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Caicos (K505) 1943-1945; returned to United States 1945; sold 1946; Argentine Navy 1947-1969; scrapped 1971
USS Harland (PF-78): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Cayman (K506) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Harman (PF-79): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Dominica (K507) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Harvey (PF-80): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Labuan (K584) (ex-Gold Coast) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1957
USS Holmes (PF-81): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Tobago (K585) (ex-Hong Kong) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; Egyptian civilian passenger ship 1950-1956; sunk as blockship 1956
USS Hornby (PF-82): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Montserrat (K586) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Hoste (PF-83): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Nyasaland (K587) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Howett (PF-84): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Papua (K588) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold 1947; Egyptian passenger vessel 1950-1956; sunk in collision 1953
USS Pilford (PF-85): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Pitcairn (K589) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Pasley (PF-86): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS St. Helena (K590) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Patton (PF-87): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Sarawak (K591) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Pearl (PF-88): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Seychelles (K592) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Phillimore (PF-89): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Perim (K593) (ex-Sierra Leone) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Popham (PF-90): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Somaliland (K594) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Peyton (PF-91): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Tortola (K595) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Prowse (PF-92): To Royal Navy as Colony-class HMS Zanzibar (K596) 1944-1946; returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Lorain (PF-93) ex-Roanoke: U.S. Navy 1945-1946; French Navy 1947-1950; sunk by mine 1950
USS Milledgeville (PF-94) ex-Sitka: U.S. Navy 1945-1946; sold 1947; scrapped 1948
USS Stamford (PF-95): Cancelled 31 December 1943
USS Macon (PF-96): Cancelled 31 December 1943
USS Lorain (PF-97) ex-Sitka: Cancelled 11 February 1944
USS Milledgeville (PF-98) ex-Vallejo: Cancelled 31 December 1943
USS Orlando (PF-99): U.S. Navy 1944-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Racine (PF-100): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; sold for scrapping 1947
USS Greensboro (PF-101): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; sold for scrapping 1948
USS Forsyth (PF-102): U.S. Navy 1945-1946; U.S. Coast Guard 1946; Netherlands civilian government weather ship 1947-1963; scrapped 1969

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References

^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ ^a ^b Navsource Patrol Frigate (PF) Index

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Gallery

Tacoma-class patrol frigates, U.S. Navy

Colony-class frigates, Royal Navy

Tacoma-class frigate

United States Navy

Completed	Abilene Albuquerque Alexandria Allentown Annapolis Bangor Bath Bayonne Beaufort Belfast Bisbee Brownsville Brunswick Burlington Carson City Casper Charlotte Charlottesville Coronado Corpus Christi Covington Davenport Dearborn El Paso Emporia Eugene Evansville Everett Forsyth Gallup Gladwyne Glendale Gloucester Grand Forks Grand Island Grand Rapids Greensboro Groton Gulfport Hallowell Halstead Hamond Hannam Hargood Harland Harman Harvey Hingham Holmes Hoquiam Hornby Hoste Hotham Howett Huron Hutchinson Key West Knoxville Long Beach Lorain (PF-93) Machias Manitowoc Milledgeville (PF-94) Moberly Muskegon Muskogee New Bedford Newport Ogden Orange Orlando Pasco Pasley Patton Pearl Peoria Peyton Phillimore Pilford Pocatello Popham Poughkeepsie Prowse Pueblo Racine Reading Rockford San Pedro Sandusky Sausalito Sheboygan Shreveport St. Helena Tacoma Uniontown Van Buren Woonsocket

Canceled	Lorain (PF-97) Macon Milledgeville (PF-98) Stamford

Royal Navy
Colony class

Soviet Navy

Post-World War II operators

United States Coast Guard	Brownsville Covington Forsyth Manitowoc Muskegon Woonsocket

Argentine Navy	Augusto Lessarre Heronia Santísima Trinidad Sarandí

Belgian Navy	Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet

Colombian Navy	Almirante Brión Almirante Padilla Capitán Tono

Cuban Navy	Antonio Maceo José Martí Maximo Gomez

Dominican Navy	Capitán General Pedro Santana Gregorio Luperón Presidente Peynado Presidente Troncoso

Ecuadorian Navy	Guayas

French Navy	La Place Le Brix Le Verrier Mermoz

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force	Buna Kaede Kashi Kaya Keyaki Kiri Kusu Maki Matsu Momi Nara Nire Sakura Shii Sugi Tochi Tsuge Ume

Republic of Korea Navy	Amnokgang Daedonggang Dumangang Imjingang Nakdonggang

Mexican Navy	California General José María Morelos General Vicente Guerrero Golfo de Tehuantepec Papaloapan Río Usumacinta

Royal Netherlands Navy	Cirrus

Netherlands Government	Cumulus

Peruvian Navy	Teniente Gálvez

Royal Thai Navy	Prasae Tachin

Preceded by: Asheville class
Followed by: None

List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy * List of patrol vessels of the Royal Navy

Project Hula ships

United States Navy

Tacoma-class patrol frigates (PF)	Albuquerque Allentown Bath Bayonne Belfast Bisbee Burlington Carson City Charlottesville Coronado Evansville Everett Gallup Glendale Gloucester Hoquiam Long Beach Machias Muskogee Newport Ogden Pasco Poughkeepsie Rockford San Pedro Sandusky Sausalito Tacoma

Admirable-class minesweepers (AM)	Admirable Adopt Astute Augury Barrier Bombard Bond Candid Capable Captivate Caravan Caution Disdain Fancy Indicative Marvel Measure Method Mirth Nucleus Palisade Penetrate Peril Rampart

Large infantry landing craft (LCI(L))	LCI(L)-521 LCI(L)-522 LCI(L)-523 LCI(L)-524 LCI(L)-525 LCI(L)-526 LCI(L)-527 LCI(L)-551 LCI(L)-554 LCI(L)-557 LCI(L)-584 LCI(L)-585 LCI(L)-586 LCI(L)-587 LCI(L)-590 LCI(L)-591 LCI(L)-592 LCI(L)-593 LCI(L)-665 LCI(L)-666 LCI(L)-667 LCI(L)-668 LCI(L)-671 LCI(L)-672 LCI(L)-675 LCI(L)-943 LCI(L)-945 LCI(L)-946 LCI(L)-949 LCI(L)-950

Auxiliary motor minesweepers (YMS)	YMS-33 YMS-38 YMS-42 YMS-59 YMS-75 YMS-85 YMS-88 YMS-100 YMS-135 YMS-139 YMS-143 YMS-144 YMS-145 YMS-178 YMS-180 YMS-184 YMS-216 YMS-237 YMS-241 YMS-260 YMS-266 YMS-272 YMS-273 YMS-285 YMS-287 YMS-288 YMS-295 YMS-301 YMS-332 YMS-428 YMS-435

Submarine chasers (SC)	SC-500 SC-537 SC-538 SC-634 SC-643 SC-646 SC-647 SC-657 SC-660 SC-661 SC-663 SC-673 SC-674 SC-675 SC-685 SC-687 SC-713 SC-752 SC-754 SC-756 SC-774 SC-986 SC-997 SC-1007 SC-1011 SC-1021 SC-1031 SC-1060 SC-1295 SC-1324 SC-1364 SC-1365

Floating workshops (YR)	Four unidentified units

Soviet Navy

Tacoma-class storozhevoi korabl (EK) ("escort vessel")	EK-1 (ex-Charlottesville) EK-2 (ex-Long Beach) EK-3 (ex-Belfast) EK-4 (ex-Machias) EK-5 (ex-San Pedro) EK-6 (ex-Glendale) EK-7 (ex-Ogden) EK-8 (ex-Coronado) EK-9 (ex-Allentown) EK-10 (ex-Ogden) EK-11 (ex-Tacoma) EK-12 (ex-Pasco) EK-13 (ex-Hoquiam) EK-14 (ex-Albuquerque) EK-15 (ex-Everett) EK-16 (ex-Sausalito) EK-17 (ex-Bisbee) EK-18 (ex-Rockford) EK-19 (ex-Muskogee) EK-20 (ex-Carson City) EK-21 (ex-Burlington) EK-22 (ex-Gallup) EK-25 (ex-Bayonne) EK-26 (ex-Gloucester) EK-27 (ex-Poughkeepsie) EK-28 (ex-Newport) EK-29 (ex-Bath) EK-30 (ex-Evansville)

Admirable-class tralshik (T) ("minesweeper")	T-271 (ex-Disdain) T-272 (ex-Fancy) T-273 (ex-Indicative) T-274 (ex-Marvel) T-275 (ex-Measure) T-276 (ex-Method) T-277 (ex-Mirth) T-278 (ex-Nucleus) T-279 (ex-Palisade) T-280 (ex-Penetrate) T-281 (ex-Peril) T-282 (ex-Rampart) T-283 (ex-Candid) T-284) (ex-Caution) T-285 (ex-Bond) T-331 (ex-Admirable) T-332 (ex-Adopt) T-333 (ex-Astute) T-334 (ex-Augury) T-335 (ex-Barrier) T-336 (ex-Bombard) T-337 (ex-Caravan) T-338 (ex-Captivate) T-339 (ex-Capable)

Desantiye suda (DS) ("landing ship") (ex-LCI(L))	DS-1 (ex-LCI(L)-672) DS-2 (ex-LCI(L)-522) DS-3 (ex-LCI(L)-523) DS-4 (ex-LCI(L)-524) DS-5 (ex-LCI(L)-525) DS-6 (ex-LCI(L)-945) DS-7 (?) (ex-LCI(L)-527) DS-8 (ex-LCI(L)-521) DS-9 (ex-LCI(L)-554) DS-10 (ex-LCI(L)-557) DS-31 (ex-LCI(L)-593) DS-32 (ex-LCI(L)-950) DS-33 (ex-LCI(L)-587) DS-34 (ex-LCI(L)-590) DS-35 (ex-LCI(L)-591) DS-36 (ex-LCI(L)-665) DS-37 (ex-LCI(L)-586) DS-38 (ex-LCI(L)-584) DS-39 (ex-LCI(L)-592) DS-40 (ex-LCI(L)-667) DS-41 (ex-LCI(L)-668) DS-42 (ex-LCI(L)-675) DS-43 (ex-LCI(L)-943) DS-44 (ex-LCI(L)-949) DS-45 (ex-LCI(L)-585) DS-46 (ex-LCI(L)-526) DS-47 (ex-LCI(L)-671) DS-48 (ex-LCI(L)-551) DS-49 (ex-LCI(L)-946) DS-50 (ex-LCI(L)-666)

Tralshik (T) ("minesweeper") (ex-YMS)	T-521 (ex-YMS-59) T-522 (ex-YMS-143) T-523 (ex-YMS-144) T-524 (ex-YMS-145) T-525 (ex-YMS-428) T-526 (ex-YMS-435) T-527 (ex-YMS-260) T-588 (ex-YMS-178) T-589 (ex-YMS-237) T-590 (ex-YMS-75) T-591 (ex-YMS-241) T-592 (ex-YMS-42) T-593 (ex-YMS-38) T-594 (ex-YMS-139) T-595 (ex-YMS-184) T-596 (ex-YMS-216) T-597 (ex-YMS-272) T-598 (ex-YMS-273) T-599 (ex-YMS-295) T-600 (ex-YMS-288) T-601 (ex-YMS-266) T-602 (ex-YMS-100) T-603 (ex-YMS-33) T-604 (ex-YMS-85) T-605 (ex-YMS-301) T-606 (ex-YMS-135) T-607 (ex-YMS-332) T-608 (ex-YMS-88) T-609 (ex-YMS-180) T-610 (ex-YMS-285) T-611 (ex-YMS-287)

Bolshiye okhotniki za povodnimi lodkami (BO) ("large antisubmarine hunter") (ex-SC)	BO-301 (ex-SC-687) BO-302 (ex-SC-685) BO-303 (ex-SC-661) BO-304 (ex-SC-537) BO-305 (ex-SC-986) BO-306 (ex-SC-674) BO-307 (ex-SC-657) BO-308 (ex-SC-647) BO-309 (ex-SC-634) BO-310 (?) (ex-SC-646) BO-311 (ex-SC-660) BO-312 (ex-SC-1021) BO-313 (ex-SC-713) BO-314 (ex-SC-675) BO-315 (ex-SC-1324) BO-316 (ex-SC-673) BO-317 (ex-SC-1060) BO-318 (ex-SC-663) BO-319 (ex-SC-500) BO-320 (ex-SC-1295) BO-321 (ex-SC-538) BO-322 (ex-SC-643) BO-323 (ex-SC-774) BO-324 (ex-SC-754) BO-325 (ex-SC-752) BO-326 (ex-SC-997) BO-327 (ex-SC-1011) BO-328 (ex-SC-1031) BO-329 (ex-SC-1365) BO-331 (ex-SC-1364) BO-332 (ex-SC-1007) BO-335 (ex-SC-756)

Floating workshops (ex-YR)	Four unidentified units

v t e United States naval ship classes of World War II

Aircraft carriers	Lexington Ranger^S Yorktown Wasp^S Essex Midway^C

Light aircraft carriers	Independence Saipan^C

Escort carriers	Long Island Bogue Sangamon Charger Casablanca Commencement Bay

Battleships	Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee Colorado North Carolina South Dakota Iowa Montana^X

Large cruisers	Alaska

Heavy cruisers	Pensacola Northampton Portland New Orleans Wichita^S Baltimore Oregon City^C Des Moines^C

Light cruisers	Omaha Brooklyn St. Louis Atlanta Cleveland Fargo^C Juneau^C Worcester^C

Destroyers	Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson Farragut Porter Mahan Gridley Bagley Somers Benham Sims Benson Gleaves Fletcher Allen M. Sumner Robert H. Smith Gearing

Destroyer escorts	Evarts Buckley Cannon Edsall Rudderow John C. Butler

Patrol frigates	Asheville *Tacoma*

Minesweepers	Lapwing Raven Auk Eagle^S Hawk Admirable

Submarines	O R S Barracuda Argonaut^S Narwhal Dolphin^S Cachalot Porpoise Salmon Sargo Tambor Mackerel Gato Balao Tench

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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