USS Newport (PF-27)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Newport.
USS Newport (PF-27), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945, and from 1950 to 1952, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Newport, Rhode Island. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-28 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kaede (PF-13), JDS Kaede (PF-293) and as YAC-17.
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United States | |
Name | Newport |
Namesake | City of Newport, Rhode Island |
Reclassified | PF-27, 15 April 1943 |
Builder | Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
Yard number | 24 |
Laid down | 8 June 1943 |
Launched | 15 August 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Nicholas Brown |
Commissioned | 8 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 4 September 1945[1] |
Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 4 September 1945[1] |
Acquired | Returned by Soviet Navy, 14 November 1949 |
Recommissioned | 27 July 1950 |
Decommissioned | 30 April 1952 |
Fate | Transferred to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1 October 1953 |
Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
Acquired | Returned by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 20 May 1975 |
Fate | Final disposition unknown |
Soviet Union | |
Name | EK-28[2] |
Acquired | 4 September 1945[1] |
Commissioned | 4 September 1945[3] |
Fate | Returned to United States, 14 November 1949 |
Japan | |
Name | JDS Kaede (PF-293) |
Acquired | 1 October 1953 |
Reclassified | PF-293, 1 September 1957 |
Renamed | YAC-17, 31 March 1966 |
Reclassified | Auxiliary stock craft (YAC), 31 March 1966 |
Decommissioned | 31 March 1972 |
Fate | Returned to United States, 20 May 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
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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 |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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