USS Covington (PF-56)

Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	1 March 1943
Launched:	15 July 1943
Commissioned:	17 October 1944
Decommissioned:	16 March 1946
Struck:	April 1947
Fate:	sold to Ecuador, 28 August 1947
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,430 tons (light), 2,415 tons (full)
Length:	303 ft 11 in (92.6 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.4 m)
Draft:	13 ft 8 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 5,500 SHP turbines, two shafts, three boilers.
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	190
Armament:	3 × 3 in./50 AA gun mounts, 2 × twin 40mm gun mounts, 9 × 20mm guns, 1 × Hedgehog projector, 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge racks
Motto:

USS Covington (PF-56), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the 3rd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Covington, Kentucky.

The third Covington (PF-56) was launched 15 July 1943 by Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Miss. J. Phillips; transferred to the Navy 5 August 1944; placed in "ferry" commission 7 August 1944; and commissioned in full 17 October 1944, Lieutenant Commander F. S. Brown, USCGR, in command.

Covington arrived at Argentia, Newfoundland, 25 December 1944 for duty as a weather patrol vessel. She remained on this duty, except for overhauls at Boston and Charleston, South Carolina until 16 March 1946 when she was decommissioned and loaned to the Coast Guard. Covington was returned from the Coast Guard 17 September 1946 and sold to Ecuador through the Foreign Liquidation Commission of the State Department 28 August 1947. Covington was renamed Guayas and decommissioned in 1972.