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| Name: | USS Bangor (PG-124) |
| Namesake: | Bangor, Maine |
| Reclassified: | PF-16, 15 April 1943 |
| Builder: | American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio |
| Yard number: | 843 |
| Laid down: | 20 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 6 November 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Ruth R. Hutchins |
| Commissioned: | 22 November 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 April 1946 |
| Struck: | 23 April 1947 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Mexican Navy, 24 November 1947 |
| Career (Mexico) | 100x35px |
| Name: | ARM General José María Morelos |
| Namesake: | José María Morelos |
| Acquired: | 24 November 1947 |
| Renamed: | ARM Golfo de Tehuantepec |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tacoma-class frigate |
| Displacement: |
1,430 long tons (1,453 t) light 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) full |
| Length: | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
| Beam: | 37 ft 11 in (11.56 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
| Propulsion: |
2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: |
• 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns (3×1) • 4 × 40 mm guns (2×2) • 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) • 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors • 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Bangor (PF-16), a Tacoma-class frigate, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bangor, Maine.
Bangor (PF-16) was laid down on 20 May 1943 at Lorain, Ohio, by the American Shipbuilding Co. under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1482); launched on 6 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Hutchins; delivered to the Navy at New Orleans, La., on 25 August 1944; fitted out at New Orleans; and placed in commission there on 22 November 1944, Lieutenant Commander Fred J. Statts, USCG, in command.
Service history
The new frigate reported for shakedown training off Bermuda on 3 December and, after four weeks of intensive drills, set a course for the Norfolk Navy Yard for post shakedown repairs. On 21 January 1945, Bangor joined Task Force (TF) 67 on convoy duty and, two days later, took station in the antisubmarine screen of a large convoy bound for northern Africa. The transatlantic voyage was routine and the ships anchored off Oran, Algeria, on 8 February.
Bangor returned to the United States with another convoy. A German U-boat attacked the Allied ships two days out of Oran. Bangor joined the other escorts in a coordinated depth charge attack, but without success. The frigate made one more round trip, transatlantic voyage without incident before undergoing repairs at Bayonne, N.J. She resumed her escort duties on 22 April and joined an Oran bound convoy out of New York. Bangor anchored at Mers el Kebir on 9 May and there received the news that Germany had surrendered. The frigate got underway on 17 May with another returning convoy for onward routing to the Pacific.
Bangor completed repairs at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard early in June and then headed for the Panama Canal Zone, where she arrived on 21 June. For the next month, the frigate conducted training exercises with submarines off the Perlas Islands in Panama Bay. In mid July, Bangor set course for San Pedro, California, to prepare for duty in the western Pacific, but the war ended while the frigate was in drydock at Seattle, Washington.
After her repairs were completed in September, Bangor cruised the waters off Alaska with her sister ship Annapolis (PF-15) before reporting to Bremerton, Washington, to serve as a rescue and weather ship for the Coast Guard. On 15 April 1946, Bangor was decommissioned by the Navy and recommissioned by the Coast Guard as one of 18 frigates used for weather reporting. Bangor rotated with other ships on weather station east of the Hawaiian Islands. Generally remaining at sea for six weeks at a time, the frigate also provided navigational information to any aircraft or surface vessel requiring assistance and assumed search and rescue duties for vessels in distress.
As 1946 passed, small seaplane tenders (AVP) replaced the frigates; Bangor was decommissioned by the Coast Guard on 16 August and returned to the Navy. Bangor was declared excess to the Navy's needs, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 23 April 1947. She was sold to Mexico on 24 November 1947, and renamed ARM General José María Morelos. Later renamed Golfo de Tehuantepec, the ship was scrapped in 1964.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Bangor at NavSource Naval History
- hazegray.org: USS Bangor
- Ship infoboxes without an image
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- Tacoma class frigates
- Ships built in Ohio
- 1943 ships
- World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
- United States Navy Maine-related ships
- Tacoma class frigates of the Mexican Navy
- United States Navy ships transferred to the United States Coast Guard
