| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Gloucester (PG-130) |
| Namesake: | Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| Builder: | Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
| Yard number: | 19 |
| Laid down: | 4 March 1943 |
| Reclassified: | PF-34, 15 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 12 July 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Emily K. Ross |
| Commissioned: | 10 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 September 1945 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Soviet Navy, 4 September 1945 |
| Acquired: | returned from Soviet Navy, 31 October 1949 |
| Recommissioned: | 11 October 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 September 1952 |
| Fate: | transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1 October 1953 |
| Struck: | 1 December 1961 |
| Acquired: | returned from Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 31 March 1969 |
| Fate: | unknown |
| Career (Soviet Union) | |
| Name: | EK-26 |
| Acquired: | 4 September 1945 |
| Fate: | Returned to United States, 31 October 1949 |
| Career (Japan) | |
| Name: | JDS Tsuge (PF-292) |
| Acquired: | 1 October 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1968 |
| Fate: | Returned to United States, 31 March 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tacoma-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,430 long tons (1,453 t) light 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) full |
| Length: | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft 11 in (11.56 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: | • 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns (3×1) • 4 × 40 mm guns (2×2) • 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) • 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors • 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Gloucester (PF-22), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The second Gloucester (PF-22), originally classified PG-130, was launched on 12 July 1943 at the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company in Superior, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Mrs. Emily K. Ross; acquired and simultaneously commissioned on 10 December 1943.
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Following shakedown, Gloucester was employed in training frigate crews at Galveston, Texas. On 16 June 1944 she was attached to Escort Division 38, and was later ordered to the Alaskan Sea Frontier for transfer to Russia under lend-lease legislation.
Leased to the Soviet Union on 4 September 1945 and renamed EK-26, she served as a patrol vessel in the Far East. Gloucester was returned to the United States at Yokosuka, Japan, on 31 October 1949.
Recommissioned on 11 October 1950, she sailed from Yokosuka on 27 November 1950 for Korea and conducted patrol and anti-submarine warfare duties at Wonsan, Pusan, Inchon, and Kusan until returning to Yokosuka on 21 January 1951. Gloucester subsequently engaged in patrol and escort duties at Wonsan and saw combat on 18 June 1951, when with other ships, she blasted gun emplacements at Wonsan. She continued her duties in Korean waters through the fall of 1951. On 11 November 1951 while cruising off Kojo in a duel with shore batteries, Gloucester took a direct hit that killed Storekeeper Third Class Louis Jaramillo and wounded 11 others. Following repairs at Japan, she returned to Korean waters to continue effective support of U.N. forces ashore. Arriving at Yokosuka on 5 September 1952, she decommissioned there on 15 September 1952.
Gloucester was loaned to Japan on 1 October 1953, struck from the Navy List on 1 December 1961, and transferred to Japan in March 1962 where she served as Tsuge (PF-292). Decommissioned on 31 March 1968, the ship was returned to US custody on 31 March 1969. Fate unknown.