USS Lorain (PF-93)

Tacoma-class frigate

Service

United States Navy as USS Roanoke (PG-201)15 January 1945 — 14 March 1946230 days of the war
Marine Nationale as Laplace (F13)26 March 1947 — 16 September 1950

Tacoma-class frigate Particulars

Name: USS Lorain
Pennant / hull number: PF-93
Namesake: Roanoke, Virginia
Laid down: 25 October 1943
Launched: 18 March 1944
Commissioned: 15 January 1945
Decommissioned: 14 March 1946
Fate: Sunk by a mine, 16 September 1950
By mine (1950)
Status: Wreck

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)

A river flowing east southeast from Montgomery County across southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina until emptying into Albermarle Sound [sic; Albemarle Sound].

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Roanoke IV (PF-93)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 × 5500 shp turbines
3 boilers
2 shafts
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

Sister ships

51 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from USS Lorain (PF-93) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Service history reproduced verbatim from Roanoke IV (PF-93) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 79870 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons