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San Pedro (PF 37)

Call sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Echo

ex-PG-145

San Pedro served the Navies of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan.

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

(MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-145

Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-37, 15 April 1943

Laid down 17 April 1943 under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1448), by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Wilmington, CA

Launched 11 June 1943

Commissioned USS San Pedro (PF-37), 23 October 1943

Decommissioned 12 July 1945 at Cold Harbor, Alaska, transferred under the Lend-Lease Program to the Soviet Union and renamed EK-5, 13 July 1945

Assigned to the Pacific Fleet 23 July 1945

Participated in the landings at Rasin (Najin), Korea 12 August 1945

Returned to U.S. custody 17 October 1949 at Yokosuka, Japan and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Yokosuka

Transferred on loan to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force 2 April 1953 and renamed Kaya (PF 288)

Struck from the Navy Register 1 December 1961

Transferred outright to Japan, 28 August 1962

Reclassified as an Auxiliary Stock Craft, YAC-23

Decommissioned 1 April 1977

Returned to U.S. custody 26 July 1978

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,430 t.

Length 303' 11"

Beam 37' 6"

Draft 13' 8"

Speed 20.3 kts.

Complement 190

Armament: Three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts , nine 20mm guns, one Hedgehog depth charge projector, eight Y-gun depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 240psi 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp verticle triple expansion J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS San Pedro (PF 37)
	187k	c. 1943 U.S. Navy Photo	Joe Radigan
	86k	c. 1943 Anchored in San Pedro harbor Bureau of Ships photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott	Krlicbegovic Edib Bosnia & Hercegovina
EK-5
	332k	.	Paul Silverstone
USS San Pedro (PF 37)
	146k	c. 1951 Yokosuka, Japan Inboard of Glendale (PF 36) U.S. Navy photo from the collection of N. A. "Stretch" Brown Carol Hipperson is the author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor & World War II in the Pacific (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press, 2008); ISBN-10 031238694X and ISBN-13 978-0312386948. Check on www.carolhipperson.com for availability	Carol Edgemon Hipperson www.carolhipperson.com
Kaya (PF 288)
	269k	22 August 1958 National Archives photos 80-G-1038176 and 80-G-1038178	Tracy White
	413k		Tracy White
	160k	c. 1963 Photo by Elichi Aoki from the 1964/1965 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships	Robert Hurst
	35k	2 June 1967 Kobe, Japan Photo from The Naval Data Base
	222k	c. 1970 Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force photo

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR Charles Otis Ashley, USCG	23 October 1943 - 1944
02	LCDR Harold L. Sutherland, USCGR	1944 - 12 July 1945

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Joe Radigan

View the San Pedro (PF-37)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

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