USS Woonsocket
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USS Woonsocket (PF-32) was a Tacoma-class frigate in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was sold to Peru in 1947, where she served as BAP Gálvez (F-1/FE-1) until 1961.
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United States | |
Name | Woonsocket |
Namesake | City of Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
Builder | Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
Laid down | 12 August 1943 |
Launched | 27 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 1 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 16 March 1946 |
Stricken | 14 May 1947 |
Fate | Transferred to the US Coast Guard, 16 March 1946 |
United States | |
Name | Woonsocket |
Commissioned | 16 March 1944 |
Decommissioned | 18 September 1946 |
Fate | Sold to Peru, 1947 |
Peru | |
Name | Teniente Gálvez |
Acquired | 1948 |
Decommissioned | 1961 |
Renamed | Gálvez |
Reclassified | FE-1 |
Fate | Broken up |
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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