USS Grand Forks
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USS Grand Forks (PG-119/PF-11), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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USS Grand Forks (PF-11) just after launch | |
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United States | |
Name | Grand Forks |
Namesake | City of Grand Forks, North Dakota |
Reclassified | Patrol Frigate (PF), 15 April 1943 |
Ordered | as a Type S2-S2-AQ1 hull, MCE hull 1429[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Richmond Shipyard #4, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 54[1] |
Laid down | 29 September 1943 |
Launched | 27 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 18 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1946 |
Stricken | 19 June 1946 |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1 November 1947 |
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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Propulsion |
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Speed | 20.3 kn (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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