USS Evansville (PF-70)

USS Evansville (PF-70)

USS "Evansville" (PF-70), a "Tacoma"-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Evansville, Indiana.

"Evansville" (PF-70) was launched on 27 November 1943 by Leathern D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, sponsored by Mrs. Don Davis, daughter of the Mayor of Evansville, Indiana; and commissioned on 4 December 1944, with Lieutenant Commander G. T. Applegate, USCG, in command.

"Evansville" sailed down the Mississippi River and after calling at Mobile, Alabama, reached Charleston, South Carolina, on 31 December. Through the next 6 months, she had escort duty along the east coast and to Bermuda, patrolled off New York, and served briefly as a weather station ship. She departed New York City on 9 July 1945 bound for San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and Cold Bay, where she was decommissioned on 9 September 1945, having been transferred to the Soviet Union under lend lease on 4 September 1945.

Returned by Russia at Yokosuka, Japan, "Evansville" was recommissioned on 29 July 1950, and served on patrol out of Yokosuka and in Korean waters until decommissioned on 28 February 1953. On 31 October 1953 she was transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Japan, in whose Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force she served as "Keyaki".

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e5/evansville-ii.htm

External links

* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/08070.htm navsource.org: USS "Evansville"]
* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/patrol/pf70.htm hazegray.org: USS "Evansville"]


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