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
- Facts harvested from Tacoma-class patrol frigate on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.