Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Destroyer escort class

Tacoma-class patrol frigate

Tacoma-class frigate

The class in numbers

  • 100 Planned
  • 96 Completed
  • 4 Cancelled
  • 2 Lost
  • 3 Preserved

Design and service

Type
Destroyer escort
Built
1943–1945
In commission
1943–2000
Preceded by
Asheville-class patrol frigate
Succeeded by
none
Operators
United States Coast Guard
Builders
  • American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio (7 ships) and Lorain, Ohio (6 ships)
  • Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California (18 ships)
  • Froemming Brothers, Milwaukee (4 ships)
  • Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin (8 ships)
  • Kaiser Cargo, Richmond, California (12 ships)
  • Leathem 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)
Subclasses
Colony class

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Complement
190

Sources