USS Newport (PF-27)

USS "Newport" (PF-27), a "Tacoma"-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Newport, Rhode Island.

The second "Newport" (PF–27) was laid down by Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, in Superior, Wisconsin, on 8 June 1943; launched on 15 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Nicholas Brown; and commissioned at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 8 September 1944, with Lieutenant Commander G. L. Holt, USCG, in command.

After Bermuda shakedown, "Newport" sailed from New York, New York, to Guantanamo Bay on escort duty, returning on 24 February 1945 to Tompkinsville, New York, her homeport for exercises and patrol off the Atlantic coast until 9 July.

Sailing via the Panama Canal and Seattle, Washington, "Newport" arrived at Cold Bay, Alaska, to decommission on 9 September. She was loaned to Soviet Russia under Lend-Lease until she was returned to United States custody at Yokosuka, Japan, on 14 November 1949.

Recommissioned on 27 July 1950, "Newport" patrolled off Inchon, South Korea, from 15 to 26 September, screening during the landings.

She was then converted for weather station service, and so served in the northwest Pacific until November 1951, when she took up varied duty off Korea, screening replenishment groups, patrolling, and firing shore bombardment at Wonsan on 29 December. She next operated in the Philippines until decommissioning at Yokosuka on 30 April 1952.

Loaned to Japan on 1 October 1953, she was commissioned as "Kaede" (PF-13). Reclassified as PF-293 on 1 September 1957, she was struck from the U.S. Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1961, and was transferred to the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force outright on 28 August 1962. "Kaede" was reclassified as a non-operational training ship on 31 March 1966.

See also

See USS "Newport" for other ships of this name.

References

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n4/newport-ii.htm history.navy.mil: USS "Newport"]
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/08027.htm navsource.org: USS "Newport"]
* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/patrol/pf27.htm hazegray.org: USS "Newport"]