USS Grand Rapids (PF-31)
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Grand Rapids |
Namesake | City of Grand Rapids , Michigan |
Builder | Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc., Superior, Wisconsin |
Laid down | 30 July 1943 |
Launched | 10 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 10 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 10 April 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 14 April 1947 |
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 |
Armament |
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USS Grand Rapids (PF-31), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Construction
Grand Rapids (PF-31), formerly designated PG-139, was launched at
Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., in Superior, Wisconsin, on 10 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Ted Booth; and commissioned on 10 October 1944. The ship had been taken down the Mississippi River and outfitted at Plaquemine, Louisiana, before being commissioned at New Orleans
.
Service history
Outfitted as a
Algiers, Louisiana, for repairs. After repairs were completed, she proceeded toward Bermuda again on 27 October, and after her shakedown training put in at Boston, Massachusetts, on 4 December 1944. Grand Rapids steamed out of Boston on 6 January 1945 for duty as a weather picket ship off Newfoundland
.
Grand Rapids operated as a weather ship out of
Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania
, on 14 April 1947, and subsequently scrapped.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Grand Rapids at NavSource Naval History
- hazegray.org: USS Grand Rapids