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Tacoma (PF 3) |
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Underway when first completed. The original photo is dated 29 October 1943 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 107264 |
Original photo: Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. Replacement photo: Mike Green |
USS Tacoma (PF 3) |
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Fitting out at Richmond, California, circa November 1943, around the time she was commissioned Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 92996 |
Mike Green |
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Tacoma (PF-3) underway on trials in San Francisco Bay, 11 December 1943. U.S. Navy photo from collection of Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum |
Darryl Baker |
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11 December 1943 Off San Francisco. She was at Mare Island for repairs from 16 June 1944 to 10 October 1944 and was in dry dock No. 2 from 23 - 26 June 1944 U.S. Navy photos 8157-43, 8164-43 and 8166-43 |
Darryl L. Baker |
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c. 1944 Seattle, WA From the collection of James R. Dunlap, Jr., Water Tender 3rd Class (somewhere in the first row) |
James R. Dunlap, III |
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U.S. Coast Guard photo |
Mike Hanlon |
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Postal cover: Postmarked 20 January 2006, Lincoln Station, Tacoma, WA |
Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. |
Taedong (PF 63) |
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16 January 1952 Han Estuary, South Korea Along side the repair ship USS Jason (ARH-1). The Jason was the flagship of Service Squadron Three which supplied mobile logistic support for United Nations’ naval units. The ships fantails visible are: (L-R) the Australian Bay-class frigate HMAS Murchison (F 442); the Colombian Tacoma-class frigate Almirante Padilla (FG 51), ex-USS Groton (PF 29); the Tacoma-class frigate USS Gloucester (PF-22), and the South Korean Tacoma-class frigate Taedong U.S. Navy photo |
Robert Hurst |
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c. 1963 Korean Navy photo from the 1964/1965 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships |