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Racine (PF-100)

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Able - Xray

ex-PG-208

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

(MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1). The first Racine was originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-208

Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-100, 15 April 1943

Laid down 14 September 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Launched 15 March 1944

Delivered and commissioned USS Racine (PF-100), 22 January 1945 at Houston, TX

Decommissioned 27 June 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 19 July 1946

Sold for scrap 2 December 1947 to Franklin Ship Wrecking Co. of Hillside, NJ.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,430 t.

Length 303' 11" (oa)

Beam 37' 6"

Draft 13' 8"

Speed 20.3 kts.

Complement 190

Armament: Two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts (the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was added), 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 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp J. Hendy Iron Works vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	85k	Launching		Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR Clarence Henry Waring, Jr., USCG	22 January 1945

Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler

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