Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Frigate PG-155

Soviet frigate EK-22

Tacoma-class frigate

Soviet frigate EK-22
United States Navy photograph via National Archives — Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan , Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center , 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1 , page 25 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — PG-155 The United States Navy patrol frigate USS Gallup (PF-47) at San Pedro, California. The U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the camouflage scheme of dull black, ocean gray, light gray, and deck blue, a version of Camouflage Design 16D.

Service

  1. United States Navy as Gallup29 February 1944 — 29 October 1951552 days of the war
  2. Soviet Navy as EK-2226 August 1945 — 14 November 19497 days of the war
  3. Royal Thai Navy as Prasae29 October 1951 — 22 June 2000
Full service history About 652 words
Tacoma-class frigate Particulars
Name
EK-22
Pennant / hull number
PG-155
Namesake
City of Gallup, New Mexico
Laid down
18 August 1943
Launched
17 September 1943
Commissioned
29 February 1944
Decommissioned
26 August 1945
Recommissioned
18 October 1950
Fate
Preserved
Status
Preserved

Specifications

Displacement, standard
2,415 long tons (2,454 t)
Length
92.35 m (303 ft)
Beam
11.28 m (37 ft)
Draught
3.96 m (13 ft)
Speed
20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
Complement
190
Main gun
76 mm (3 in)

The first Gallup (PF-47) was launched on 17 September 1943 at Los Angeles, Calif., by the Consolidated Steel Corp.; sponsored by Ens. Helen McMahon, NNRC; and commissioned on 29 February 1944 at San Pedro, Calif., Lt. Cmdr. Clayton M. Opp, USCG, in command.

Following conversion work at Newport Beach, Calif., and shakedown out of San Pedro and San Diego, Calif., she departed the latter port on 1 June 1944 for the Pacific war zone. Conducting antisubmarine patrol en route, she arrived at Noumea, New Caledonia, on 21 June, and continued her escort and patrol duty in the waters of New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Australia until 12 October with Escort Division 43.

On 17 August 1944, she bombarded enemy strongholds to support landings on Biak Island at Blue Beach, north of Wardo River by units of the 41st Infantry Division. She continued to fire until the troops had completed their landing and secured the beach. Again, on 25 August, Gallup lent support to the conquest of Biak by shelling the beaches between Menoerar and Cape Warari as the Army and Navy continued the successful New Guinea offensive.

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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Gallup I (PF-47)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • 2 × 5500 shp turbines
  • 3 boilers
  • 2 shafts
Armament
  • 3 × 3 in/50 dual purpose guns (3x1)
  • 4 x 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

Sister ships

51 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Soviet frigate EK-22 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Service history reproduced verbatim from Gallup I (PF-47) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
  • Photograph: United States Navy photograph via National Archives — Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan , Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center , 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1 , page 25 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons