Allied Warships

USS Gloucester (PF-22)

Frigate of the Tacoma class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassTacoma 
PennantPF-22 
Built byWalter Butler Shipbuilding Co. (Superior, Wisconsin, U.S.A.) 
Ordered8 Dec 1942 
Laid down4 Mar 1943 
Launched12 Jul 1943 
Commissioned10 Dec 1943 
End service15 Sep 1952 
History

Decommissioned 3 September 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska.
Transferred to the USSR the following day being renamed EK-26.
Returned to the U.S.N. on 31 October 1949.
Recommissioned 11 October 1950.
Decommissioned 15 September 1952.
Transferred to Japan on 1 October 1953 being renamed Tsuge (PF-292).

 

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