USS Brownsville
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USS Brownsville (PG-118/PF-10), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Brownsville, Texas.
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USS Brownsville (PF-10) at Mare Island on 15 June 1944. In the background are the stern of the French Armed Merchant Cruiser Cap Des Palmes and USS Aries (AK-51) | |
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United States | |
Name | Brownsville |
Namesake | City of Brownsville, Texas |
Reclassified | Patrol Frigate (PF), 15 April 1943 |
Ordered | as a Type S2-S2-AQ1 hull, MCE hull 1428[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Richmond Shipyard #4, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 53[1] |
Laid down | 14 September 1943 |
Launched | 14 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 6 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 1946 |
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Fate | Loaned to the US Coast Guard |
United States | |
Name | Brownsville |
Commissioned | April 1946 |
Decommissioned | 2 August 1946 |
Stricken | 25 September 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 30 September 1947 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate patrol frigate |
Displacement | |
Length | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
Beam | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 20.3 kn (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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