USS Reading
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USS Reading (PF-66), a Tacoma-class frigate, originally classified as PG-174, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Reading, Pennsylvania.
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ARA Heroína (P32) ex-USS Reading (PF-66) | |
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United States | |
Name | Reading |
Namesake | City of Reading, Pennsylvania |
Builder | Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin |
Laid down | 23 May 1943 |
Launched | 28 August 1943 |
Commissioned | 19 August 1944 |
Decommissioned | 19 December 1945 |
Stricken | 5 January 1946 |
Fate | Resold to Argentina, July 1947 |
Argentina | |
Name | Heroína |
Acquired | July 1947 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1966 |
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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In 1947, she was sold to Argentina, entering service with the Argentine Navy as ARA Heroina (P-32); she was scrapped in 1966.