USS Bangor
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USS Bangor (PF-16) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1946. Thus far, she has been the only U.S. Navy ship named for Bangor, Maine. She later served in United States Coast Guard as USCGC Bangor and in the Mexican Navy as ARM General José María Morelos and ARM Golfo de Tehuantepec.
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USS Bangor | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Bangor (PG-124) |
Namesake | City of 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 |
Fate | Transferred to US Coast Guard 15 April 1946 |
Acquired | Returned by US Coast Guard 16 August 1946 |
Stricken | 23 April 1947 |
Fate | Sold to Mexican Navy, 24 November 1947 |
United States | |
Name | Bangor |
Acquired | 15 April 1946 from US Navy |
Commissioned | 15 April 1946 |
Decommissioned | 16 August 1946 |
Fate | Returned to US Navy 16 August 1946 |
Mexico | |
Name | General José María Morelos |
Namesake | José María Morelos |
Acquired | 24 November 1947 |
Renamed | Golfo de Tehuantepec |
Namesake | Gulf of Tehuantepec |
Fate | Scrapped, 1964 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
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