USS Everett
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USS Everett (PG-116/PF-8), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1953, thus far has been the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Everett, Washington. She also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-15 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kiri (PF-11/PF-291/YAC-20).
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USS Everett (PF-8) | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Everett |
Namesake | City of Everett, Washington |
Reclassified | Patrol Frigate (PF), 15 April 1943 |
Ordered | as a Type S2-S2-AQ1 hull, MCE hull 1426[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Richmond Shipyard #4, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 51[1] |
Laid down | 31 July 1943 |
Launched | 29 September 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Cornelia M. Fitch |
Commissioned | 22 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 16 August 1945 |
Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
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Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy 16 August 1945[lower-alpha 1] |
Soviet Union | |
Name | EK-15[lower-alpha 2] |
Acquired | 16 August 1945 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1945[lower-alpha 3] |
Decommissioned | 16 October 1949 |
Fate | Returned to United States, 16 October 1949 |
United States | |
Name | Albuquerque |
Acquired | 16 October 1949 |
Recommissioned | 26 July 1950 |
Decommissioned | 10 May 1953 |
Honors and awards | 4 × battle stars for Korean War service |
Fate | Transferred to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 30 November 1953 |
Japan | |
Name | Kiri |
Acquired | March 1953 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1975 |
Renamed | YAC-20, 31 March 1970 |
Reclassified | Auxiliary stock craft (YAC), 31 March 1970 |
Identification | Hull symbol: PF-291/YAC-20 |
Fate | Returned to United States, 22 January 1976 and scrapped |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class 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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Speed | 20.3 kn (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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