Tacoma-class frigate

USS Peoria (PF-67) in June 1945
Class overview
Builders	American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio (7 ships) and Lorain, Ohio (6 ships) Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California (18 ships) Froemming Brothers, Milwaukee (4 ships) Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin (8 ships) Kaiser Cargo, Richmond, California (12 ships) Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (8 ships) Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island (21 ships) Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin (12 ships)[2]
Operators	United States Navy United States Coast Guard  Royal Navy  Soviet Navy  Argentine Navy  Belgian Navy  Colombian National Navy  Cuban Revolutionary Navy  Dominican Navy  Ecuadorian Navy  French Navy  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force  Republic of Korea Navy  Mexican Navy  Royal Netherlands Navy  Peruvian Navy  Royal Thai Navy
Preceded by	Asheville-class patrol frigate
Succeeded by	none
Subclasses	Colony class
Cost	$2.3 million[1]
Built	1943–1945
In commission	1943–2000
Planned	100
Completed	96
Cancelled	4
Lost	2
Retired	94
Preserved	3
General characteristics
Type	Frigate
Displacement	1,430 long tons (1,450 t) (light load) 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) (full load)
Length	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Installed power	2 × 3-Drum express boilers , 240 psi (1,700 kPa) 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engine 2 × shafts
Speed	20.3 kn (37.6 km/h; 23.4 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber dual-purpose (DP) gun 2 × twin 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors anti-aircraft (AA) gun mounts 9 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannon AA gun mounts 2 × Depth charge tracks 8 × Depth charge projectors 1 × Hedgehog

The Tacoma class was a class of 96 patrol frigates which served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Originally classified as gunboats (PG), they were reclassified as patrol frigates (PF) on 15 April 1943. The class is named for its lead ship, Tacoma, a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) S2-S2-AQ1 design, which in turn was named for the city of Tacoma, Washington. Twenty-one ships were transferred to the British Royal Navy, in which they were known as Colony-class frigates, and twenty-eight ships were transferred under Lend-Lease to the Soviet Navy, where they were designated as storozhevoi korabl ("escort ships"), during World War II. All Tacoma-class ships in US service during World War II were manned by United States Coast Guard crews. Tacoma-class ships were transferred to the United States Coast Guard and various navies post-World War II.