USS Newport (PF-27)

The second Newport (PF-27) was laid down by Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wis., 8 June 1943; launched 15 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Nicholas Brown; and commissioned at New Orleans 8 September 1944, Lt. Comdr. G. L. Holt, USCG, in command.

After Bermuda shakedown, Newport sailed from New York to Guantanamo Bay on escort duty, returning 24 February 1945 to Tompkinsville, N. Y., her homeport for exercises and patrol off the Atlantic coast until 9 July.

Sailing via the Panama Canal and Seattle, Newport arrived at Cold Bay, Alaska to decommission 9 September. She was loaned to Soviet Russia under Lend-Lease until returned to United States custody at Yokosuka, Japan, 14 November 1949.

She was then converted for weather station service, and so served in the northwest Pacific until November 1951, when she took up varied duty off Korea, screening replenishment groups, patrolling, and firing shore bombardment at Wonsan 29 December. She next operated in the Philippines until decommissioning at Yokosuka 30 April 1952.

Loaned to Japan 1 October 1953, she was commissioned as Kaede (PF-13). Reclassified PF-293 on 1 September 1957, she was struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register 1 December 1961, and was transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force outright on 28 August 1962. Kaede was reclassified as a non-operational training ship on 31 March 1966. Into 1969, she still serves Japan in that capacity.

From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Newport II (PF-27)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.