USS Manitowoc (PF-61)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Manitowoc.
USS Manitowoc (PF-61), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Manitowoc, Wisconsin. After commissioned service in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. After her Navy service, she served in the United States Coast Guard for a few months in 1946. Sold to France in 1947, she commissioned into service in the French Navy as Le Brix (F715) in 1948 and operated as a weather ship until scrapped in 1958.
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United States | |
Name | Manitowoc |
Namesake | City of Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
Reclassified | PF-61, 15 April 1943 |
Builder | Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
Laid down | 26 August 1943 |
Launched | 30 November 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Martin Georgenson |
Commissioned | 5 December 1944 |
Decommissioned | 14 March 1946 |
Fate | Transferred to US Coast Guard, 14 March 1946 |
History | |
United States | |
Name | Manitowoc |
Commissioned | 14 March 1946 |
Decommissioned | 3 September 1946 |
Fate | Sold to France, 25 March 1947 |
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France | |
Name | Le Brix |
Namesake | Joseph Le Brix |
Acquired | 25 March 1947 |
Reclassified | F715, c. 1952 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1958 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
Displacement | 1,264 long tons (1,284 t) |
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 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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