USS Pasco
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USS Pasco (PG-114/PF-6), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945, has thus far been the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pasco, Washington. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-12 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Kashi (PF-3/PF-283) and as YAC-12.
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USS Pasco (PF-6) | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Pasco |
Namesake | City of Pasco, Washington |
Reclassified | Patrol Frigate (PF), 15 April 1943 |
Ordered | as a Type S2-S2-AQ1 hull, MCE hull 1424[1] |
Builder | Permanente Metals Richmond Shipyard#4, Richmond, California |
Yard number | 49[1] |
Laid down | 7 July 1943 |
Launched | 17 August 1943 |
Sponsored by | Miss Myrna Olson |
Commissioned | 15 April 1944 |
Decommissioned | 16 August 1945 |
Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
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Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 16 August 1945 |
Soviet Union | |
Name | EK-12 |
Acquired | 16 August 1945 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1945[lower-alpha 1] |
Decommissioned | 1 November 1949 |
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Japan | |
Name | Kashi |
Acquired | 1953 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1967 |
Renamed | YAC-12, 30 June 1967 |
Reclassified | Auxiliary stock craft (YAC) 30 June 1967 |
Identification | Hull symbol: PF-283 |
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South Korea | |
Acquired | 1969 |
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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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