USS Brunswick (PF-68)

History
United States
Name	Brunswick
Namesake	City of Brunswick, Georgia
Builder	Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and Todd Galveston Drydocks, Inc., Galveston, Texas
Laid down	16 July 1943
Launched	6 November 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. K. G. Berrie
Commissioned	20 May 1944 (reduced)
Decommissioned	27 May 1944
Recommissioned	3 October 1944
Decommissioned	3 May 1946
Reclassified	From patrol patrol frigate, PF-68, 15 April 1943
Stricken	19 June 1946
Fate	Sold for scrapping 9 April 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	Tacoma-class frigate
Displacement	1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
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 dual purpose guns (3x1); 4 x 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;

The second USS Brunswick (PF-68) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1946.

Construction and commissioning

Brunswick originally was authorized as a patrol

decommissioned there on 27 May 1944. She then was fitted out at the Todd Galveston Drydocks, Inc. and was placed in full commission on 3 October 1944, with a United States Coast Guard

Brunswick departed Galveston on 15 October 1944 on her way to shakedown training in the West Indies. She arrived in the vicinity of Bermuda and underwent her shakedown evolutions between 24 October 1944 and 22 November 1944.

Brunswick embarked upon the first of her three round-trip

U-870. Brunswick conducted a depth-charge attack, but U-870 escaped. Brunswick escorted the damaged Henry Miller into Gibraltar

From Norfolk, Brunswick moved north to

Philadelphia Navy Yard converted her for duty as a weather ship. She embarked upon her first weather

Returned to the Navy at Norfolk early in April 1946, Brunswick was decommissioned there on 3 May 1946. Her name was struck from the