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USS Corpus Christi (PF 44)
ex-USCGC Corpus Christi (PF 44)
ex-USS Corpus Christi (PF 44)



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - William - Mike

ex-PG-152

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate:

  • (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-152
  • Reclassified as a Patrol Frigate, PF-44, 15 April 1943
  • Laid down 17 July 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Consolidated Steel Corp, Ltd., Wilmington, CA
  • Launched 17 August 1943
  • Commissioned USS Corpus Christi (PF-44), 29 January 1944 at San Pedro, CA
  • Loaned to the Coast Guard 15 April 1946
  • Returned to U.S. Navy custody 5 July 1946
  • Decommissioned 2 August 1946
  • Sold 3 October 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 1,430 t. (lt), 2,415 t. (fl)
  • Length 303' 11"
  • Beam 37' 6"
  • Draft 13' 8"
  • Speed 20.3 kts.
  • Complement 190
  • Armament: Three 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two twin 40mm gun mounts, nine 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, eight depth charge projectors and one hedgehog depth charge projector
  • Propulsion: Two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500ihp J. Hendy Iron Works engines, two shafts.
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    Corpus Christi 56k In port, c. 1945
    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1971
    US Navy photo NH 74296    		 Naval Historical Center
    Commanding Officers
    01CDR William Wilder Childress, USCG - Retired as Rear Admiral29 January 1944 - 4 August 1945
    02LT Charles H. Lavell, Jr., USCGR4 August 1945 - 2 August 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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