USS Sandusky (PF-54)
USS Sandusky (PF-54) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Sandusky |
| Namesake | City of Sandusky, Ohio |
| Reclassified | PF-54, 15 April 1943 |
| Builder | Froemming Brothers, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Laid down | 8 July 1943 |
| Launched | 5 October 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Mabel Apel |
| Commissioned | 18 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 12 July 1945 |
| Honors & awards | 2 × battle stars, World War II |
| Fate | Transferred to the Soviet Navy, 12 July 1945 |
| Acquired | Returned by Soviet Navy, 15 October 1949 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 26 February 1953 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
| Acquired | Returned by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 31 March 1970 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1970 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | EK-7 |
| Acquired | 12 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 12 July 1945 |
| Fate | Returned to United States, 15 October 1949 |
| Japan | |
| Name | Nire |
| Acquired | 26 February 1953 |
| Renamed | YAC-19, 1969 |
| Reclassified | Auxiliary stock craft (YAC), 1969 |
| Fate | Returned to United States 31 March 1970 for disposal |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 190 |
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USS Sandusky (PF-54), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945, was the second United States Navy ship of the name and the first to be named for Sandusky, Ohio. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-7 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Nire (PF-7), Nire (PF-287) and as YAC-19.