USS Ogden (PF-39)

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For other ships with the same name, see USS Ogden.

History
United States
NameOgden
NamesakeCity of Ogden, Utah
ReclassifiedPF-39, 15 April 1943
BuilderConsolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California
Laid down21 May 1943
Launched23 June 1943
Sponsored byMiss Margaret S. Shelton
Commissioned20 December 1943
Decommissioned12 July 1945
Honors and
awards		3
battle stars, World War II
FateTransferred to the Soviet Navy, 12 July 1945[1]
AcquiredReturned by Soviet Navy, 15 October 1949
FateTransferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 14 January 1953
AcquiredReturned by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 28 June 1977
FateScrapped, 1977
Soviet Union
NameEK-10[3]
Acquired12 July 1945[1]
Commissioned12 July 1945[2]
FateReturned to United States, 15 October 1949
Japan
NameKusu
Acquired14 January 1953
RenamedYAS-37, 1962
RenamedYAC-22, 1964
Decommissioned1 April 1976
FateReturned to United States, 28 June 1977
General characteristics
Class and typeTacoma-class frigate
Displacement1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
Length303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines
  • 3 boilers
  • 2 shafts
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement190
Armament

The first USS Ogden (PF-39) was a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945. Originally classified as PG-147, she was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ogden, Utah. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-10 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Kusu (PF-1), Kusu (PF-281), YAS-50 and YAC-22.

Construction and commissioning

Ogden was laid down at the

launched on 23 June 1943, sponsored by Miss Margaret S. Shelton, and commissioned at San Diego
, California, on 20 December 1943.

Service history

U.S. Navy, World War II, 1944–1945

After

Humboldt Bay
.

Following

Leyte in the Philippines on 2 November 1944, bringing up a convoy which included a U.S. Navy tanker, an Australian merchant ship, and ten tugs pulling a variety of tows. When Japanese planes attacked her convoy that night, one bomb
missed her by only 50 yards (46 m).

Ogden returned to New Guinea twice to bring reinforcement convoys to Leyte, and on 12 November 1944 shot down three Japanese

torpedo planes
which attacked her Leyte-bound convoy.

Ogden left Humboldt Bay on 14 December 1944, bound for Manus,

Casco Bay, Maine
.

Ogden got underway from Casco Bay on 28 March 1945 as part of Escort Division 25 – which also included her sister ships USS Long Beach (PF-34) (the flagship), USS Belfast (PF-35), USS Glendale (PF-36), USS San Pedro (PF-37), and USS Coronado (PF-38) – bound for Seattle, Washington, via the Panama Canal. The six patrol frigates arrived at Seattle on 26 April 1945. They got underway again for Kodiak in the Territory of Alaska on 7 June 1945, but Ogden had to turn around and return to Seattle for repairs.[4]

After repairs, Ogden resumed her voyage and on 27 June 1945 joined her sister ships Long Beach, Belfast, Glendale, San Pedro, Coronado, USS Charlottesville (PF-25), USS Allentown (PF-52), USS Machias (PF-53), and USS Sandusky (PF-54) at Cold Bay, Alaska, to participate in Project Hula, a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan. Training of Ogden's new Soviet Navy crew soon began at Cold Bay.[5]

Soviet Navy, 1945–1949

Ogden was

Soviet Far East.[6]

In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947,

James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, EK-10 among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships was protracted, but on 15 October 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned EK-10 to the U.S. Navy at Yokosuka, Japan.[7]

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1953–1977

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Kusunoki.

Reverting to her original name, Ogden was placed in reserve at Yokosuka until transferred to

camphor tree").[8] She simultaneously was assigned to the 1st Fleet, which was created that day, along with her sister ships Nara (ex-USS Machias (PF-53)), Kashi (ex-USS Pasco (PF-6)), and Momi (ex-USS Poughkeepsie (PF-26)), all similarly lent to Japan. All four ships were assigned to the Yokosuka
District Force. On 1 April 1953, the 1st Fleet became part of the newly created 1st Fleet Group. The 1st Fleet later was renamed the 1st Escort Corps.

In 1954, the Safety Security Force became the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). On 1 April 1956, Kusu was transferred to the 11th Escort Flotilla, which the JMSDF formed that day. On 10 May 1957, the 11th Escort Flotilla was abolished and its ships became part of the new 1st Training Corps, under which Kusu participated in the 1st Training Corps's first oceanic training voyage. Kusu was redesignated PF-281 on 1 September 1957[8]

Kusu was transferred to the Yokosuka District Force on 10 December 1963. In 1964 she was converted into a

Y-gun depth charge projector, and depth charge track armament and the installation of a drone storage and maintenance hangar
.

Kusu was reclassified as an "auxiliary service craft" and renamed YAS-50 on 31 March 1970,[8] then reclassified as an "auxiliary storage vessel" and renamed YAC-22 on 31 March 1971.[8] She was decommissioned on 1 April 1976 and returned to U.S. custody on 28 June 1977. She was scrapped in 1977.[9]

Awards

The U.S. Navy awarded Ogden three

battle stars for her World War II
service.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War
    , reports that the transfer date was 12 July 1945. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.
  2. ^
    large infantry landing craft (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of USS Coronado (PF-38)
    , which Russell says typified the transfer process. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War
    , reports that the ship's Soviet name was EK-10. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.
  4. ISBN 0-945274-35-1
    , pp 24–25.
  5. ISBN 0-945274-35-1
    , p. 25.
  6. ISBN 0-945274-35-1
    , pp. 27, 39.
  7. ISBN 0-945274-35-1
    , pp. 37–38, 39.
  8. ^ a b c d The Naval Database.
  9. ^ shipbuildinghistory.com CONSOLIDATED WILMINGTON Accessed 15 November 2021

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