TheTacoma class was aclass of 96patrol frigates which served in theUnited States Navy duringWorld War II and theKorean War. Originally classified asgunboats (PG), they were reclassified as patrol frigates (PF) on 15 April 1943. The class is named for itslead ship,Tacoma, aMaritime Commission (MARCOM) S2-S2-AQ1 design, which in turn was named for the city ofTacoma, Washington. Twenty-one ships were transferred to the BritishRoyal Navy, in which they were known asColony-class frigates, and twenty-eight ships were transferred underLend-Lease to theSoviet Navy, where they were designated asstorozhevoi korabl ("escort ships"), during World War II. AllTacoma-class ships in US service during World War II were manned byUnited States Coast Guard crews.Tacoma-class ships were transferred to the United States Coast Guard and various navies post-World War II.
In 1942, the success ofGermansubmarines againstAllied shipping and the shortage of escorts with which to protect Alliedsea lines of communication convinced US PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt of a need to engage mercantile shipbuilders in the construction of warships for escort duty. TheUnited States Maritime Commission (MARCOM), which oversaw the wartime merchant shipbuilding program, proposed to meet this requirement by building a version of the BritishRiver-class frigate, aRoyal Navy ship type built tomercantile standards in British shipyards experienced in building commercial ships.[3][4] TwoRiver-class ships under construction inMontreal, Quebec, Canada, asHMS Adur (for the Royal Navy) andHMCS Annan (for theRoyal Canadian Navy), were transferred to the US Navy in 1942, prior to completion, as prototypes for theTacoma class and became theAsheville-classAsheville (PF-1) andNatchez (PF-2), respectively.
Thenaval architecture firm ofGibbs & Cox, designed theTacoma class by modifying the River class to American requirements. TheTacoma-class units were designed and armed to serve mostly asanti-submarine warfare (ASW) ships. They were distinguished from the River class primarily by their pole (instead of the British tripod)foremast and lighter main guns,3-inch (76.2-millimetre)/50 caliber gun instead of the British4-inch (102-millimetre)/40 caliber gun, and they had an American rather than British powerplant.
TheTacoma-class was designed to take advantage of American construction techniques employingprefabrication. Unlike most other types of warship, theTacomas, like theRivers, were built to mercantile standards. With the proven effectiveness of theRiver class on escort duty, MARCOM's goal was to allow commercial shipyards without prior experience of naval construction standards to build effective warships more cheaply and efficiently. MARCOM had hoped that the US Navy, some members of which doubted that the commercial shipyards could build a sturdy enough warship, would accept them because of the proven service record of theRiver-class ships which inspired their design.[3][4]
The resulting ships had a greater range than the superficially similardestroyer escorts, but the US Navy viewed them as decidedly inferior in all other respects. TheTacoma class had a much larger turning circle than a destroyer escort, lacked sufficient ventilation for warm-weather operations – a reflection of their original British design and its emphasis on operations in the North Atlantic Ocean – and were criticized as far too hot below decks, and, because of the mercantile style of their hulls, had far less resistance to underwater explosions than ships built to naval standards like the destroyer escorts.[4]
Like their predecessorsAsheville andNatchez, theTacoma-class ships built for the US Navy all were named after small cities in the United States.[3]
In November 1942, MARCOM gave its West Coast Regional Office the responsibility for coordinating the construction of the ships of theTacoma class, which were to be split between commercial shipyards on theUnited States West Coast and five shipyards on theGreat Lakes, the latter in particular chosen because they had building ways available for use in theTacoma program. MARCOM tendered a contract toKaiser Cargo, Inc., ofOakland, California, to prepare detailed specifications based on the Gibbs & Cox design and to manage the overall construction program.[3]
On 8 December 1942, MARCOM contracted for 69Tacoma-class ships, for which the US Navy dropped the British "corvette" designation in favor of classifying theTacomas (along with the twoAsheville-class ships that preceded them) as "patrol gunboats" (PG); on 15 April 1943, the twoAshevilles and allTacomas were reclassified as "patrol frigates" (PF). Kaiser Cargo itself received an order for 12 ships; theConsolidated Steel Corporation, ofWilmington, California, received an order for 18; theAmerican Ship Building Company, received an order for 11, with four to be built atCleveland, Ohio, and eight atLorain, Ohio; theWalter Butler Shipbuilding Company, ofSuperior, Wisconsin, received an order for 12;Froemming Brothers, Inc., ofMilwaukee, received an order for four; theGlobe Shipbuilding Company, of Superior, Wisconsin, received an order for eight; and theLeathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, ofSturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, received an order for eight. American Shipbuilding later received an order for another six (four at Cleveland and two at Lorain), bringing the total orders for the US Navy to 79 ships, while theWalsh-Kaiser Company, ofProvidence, Rhode Island, received an order for 21 additional ships, all of which were to be transferred to the Royal Navy, where they were known as theColony class, bringing the total planned construction to 100 units. Four ships scheduled for construction at Lorain, by American Shipbuilding,Stamford,Macon,Lorain, andMilledgeville (ex-Vallejo), were cancelled in December 1943 and February 1944, dropping the ultimate total ofTacoma-class ships built to 96.[1][3]
From the beginning, the construction program was plagued by difficulties which caused it to fall far behind schedule. Unfamiliar with the capabilities of the Great Lakes yards, Kaiser Cargo used prefabrication techniques unsuited to the Great Lakes yards' smallercranes and had to rework them. Ice prevented patrol frigates built on the Great Lakes from transiting theSoo Locks on theSt. Marys River betweenLake Superior andLake Michigan in the winter and spring, requiring them to be floated down theMississippi River onpontoons toNew Orleans orHouston forfitting out, often doubling their construction time. Delays became so lengthy that shipyards began to deliver the ships in such an incomplete state thatshakedown and post-shakedown periods of repair and alteration took months for some of them.Bilge keels that cracked in rough seas or cold weather, failures in the welds holding thedeckhouse to the deck, engine trouble, and ventilation problems plagued all of the ships. As a result, noTacoma-class ship wascommissioned until late in 1943, none were ready for service until 1944, and the last one,USS Alexandria (PF-18), was not commissioned until March 1945. The ships Consolidated Steel built proved the most reliable, while Kaiser Cargo-built units were the most trouble-prone; among the latter,Tacoma took ten months of shakedown and repairs to be ready after her commissioning, andPasco proved equally difficult to make ready for service.[5]
By the time the firstTacoma-class ships were ready for front-line service in 1944, the US Navy's requirement for them had passed, thanks to a decline in the threat fromAxis submarines, and the availability of ample numbers ofdestroyers and destroyer escorts, which the Navy regarded as much superior to theTacoma class. The Navy crewed all of theTacoma-class ships withUnited States Coast Guard personnel. The Consolidated Steel-built ships, thanks to their superior reliability and performance, all saw service in thePacific war zone where one,Rockford, teamed with theminesweeperArdent to sink the Japanese submarineI-12 in November 1944, but the US Navy generally relegated the patrol frigates to local training and escort responsibilities, and to duty asweather ships, for which the aft-mounted 3-inch gun was removed in order to allow the installation of aweather balloonhangar.[3][4]
The United States built an additional 21Tacoma-class ships for the United Kingdom for service in the Royal Navy, where they were known as theColony class, and all but one of them initially received British names, rather than the names of small US cities, while still US Navy ships; they were returned to the United States between 1946 and 1948. Eighteen of these were quickly scrapped, but two were sold toEgypt, for use as civilian passenger ships, and one toArgentina, for service as a warship in theArgentine Navy.[6][7][8]
As a part ofProject Hula, a secret 1945 program that transferred 149 US Navy ships to theSoviet Navy atCold Bay, Alaska, in anticipation of theSoviet Union joining thewar against Japan, the US Navy transferred 28Tacoma-class ships to the Soviet Navy between July and September 1945. They were the largest, most heavily armed, and most expensive ships transferred during the program. At least some of them saw action in theSoviet offensive against Japanese forces in Northeast Asia, in August 1945. The transfer of two more,Annapolis andBangor, was cancelled when transfers halted on 5 September 1945. One of the transferred ships,EK-3 (ex-Belfast), ran aground and was damaged beyond economical repair in a November 1948 storm offPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but the Soviet Union returned the other 27 frigates to the United States in October and November 1949.[9]
The US Navy quickly decommissioned 23Tacoma-class ships after the end of World War II, after only very brief US Navy careers, and sold them for scrap in 1947 and 1948, although one, the formerCharlotte, was saved from the scrapyard to become a Brazilian merchant ship. The 27 ships the Soviet Union returned in 1949 went into the US Navy'sPacific Reserve Fleet in Japan; 13 of them were recommissioned for US Navy service in theKorean War, but all 27 soon were transferred to the navies of other countries. The other 25Tacoma-class ships never returned to service in the US Navy and also were transferred to foreign countries. In the post-World War II era,Tacoma-class patrol frigates operated in theJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force, theRepublic of Korea Navy, and the Argentine,Belgian,Colombian,Cuban,Dominican,Ecuadorian,French,Mexican,Royal Netherlands,Peruvian, andRoyal Thai navies, and one ship operated as a civilian weather ship for the government of the Netherlands.[4] In foreign navies, manyTacoma-class ships survived into the 1960s and 1970s, and the last operator ofTacoma-class patrol frigates,Thailand, did not retire its two ships until 2000.
TheTacoma-class ships, listed in order of US Navyhull number, and their dates of active service and fates follow.[1][7][8]
| Ship name | Hull no. | Dates of U.S. Navy service | Loan in war | Later loan | Final disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tacoma | PF-3 | (1943–1945, 1950–1951) | To Soviet Navy asEK-11 (1945–1949) | To Republic of Korea Navy asROKS Taedong (PF-63) (1951–1973) | Preserved in South Korea, 1973 |
| Sausalito | PF-4 | (1944–1945, 1950–1952) | To Soviet Navy asEK-16 (1945–1949) | To Republic of Korea Navy asROKS Imchin (PF-66) (1952–1973) | Scrapped, 1973 |
| Hoquiam | PF-5 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy asEK-13 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy asROKS Nae Tong (PF-65) (1951–1973) | Scrapped, 1973 |
| Pasco | PF-6 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-12 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Kashi (PF-283) (1953–1967) | South Korea for parts, 1969 |
| Albuquerque | PF-7 | (1943–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy asEK-14 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Tochi (PF-296) (1951–1969) | United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Everett | PF-8 | (1944–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy asEK-15 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Kiri (PF-291) (1953–1975) | United States for disposal, 1976 |
| Pocatello | PF-9 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Brownsville | PF-10 | (1944–1946) | To US Coast Guard asUSCGC Brownsville (1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | |
| Grand Forks | PF-11 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Casper | PF-12 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pueblo | PF-13 | (1944–1946) | Dominican Navy asPresidente Troncoso (F103) (laterGregorio Luperón) (1948–1979) | Scrapped, 1982 | |
| Grand Island | PF-14 | (1944–1945) | Cuban Navy asMaximo Gomez (F303) (1947-1970s?) | Unknown | |
| Annapolis | PF-15 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy asARM General Vicente Guerrero (laterARM Río Usumacinta) (1947–1964) | Scrapped, 1964 | |
| Bangor | PF-16 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard asUSCGC Bangor (1946) To Mexican Navy asARM General José María Morelos (laterARM Golfo de Tehuantepec) | Scrapped, 1964 | |
| Key West | PF-17 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Alexandria | PF-18 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Huron | PF-19 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Gulfport | PF-20 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Bayonne | PF-21 | (1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy asEK-25 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Buna (PF-294) (1953–1965) | Sunk as target, 1968 |
| Gloucester | PF-22 | (1943–1945, 1950–1952) | Soviet Navy asEK-26 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Tsuge (PF-292) (1953–1968) | United States for disposal, 1969 |
| Shreveport | PF-23 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Muskegon | PF-24 | (1944–1946) | To US Coast Guard asUSCGC Muskegon (1946) French Navy asMermoz (F714) (1947-late 1950s) | Scrapped, late 1950s | |
| Charlottesville | PF-25 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-1 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Matsu (PF-286) (1953–1969) | United States for disposal, 1972 |
| Poughkeepsie | PF-26 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-27 (1945–1949) | Japanese Merchant Marine (1951), then Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Momi (PF-284) (1953–1969) | South Korea for parts, 1969 |
| Newport | PF-27 | (1944–1945, 1950–1952) | Soviet Navy asEK-28 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Kaede (PF-293) (1953–1972) | United States for disposal, 1975 |
| Emporia | PF-28 | (1944–1946) | French Navy asLe Verrier (F716) (1947–1958) | Scrapped, 1958 | |
| Groton | PF-29 | (1944–1946) | Colombian Navy asARC Almirante Padilla (F-11) (1947–1965) | Stricken, 1965 | |
| Hingham | PF-30 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Grand Rapids | PF-31 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Woonsocket | PF-32 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard asUSCGC Woonsocket (1946) Peruvian Navy asBAP Teniente Gálvez (F-1) (laterBAP Gálvez) (1948–1961) | Scrapped | |
| Dearborn (ex-Toledo) | PF-33 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Long Beach | PF-34 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-2 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Shii (PF-297) (1953–1967) | Scrapped, 1967 |
| Belfast | PF-35 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-3 (1945–1948) | Wrecked, 1948 | |
| Glendale | PF-36 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy asEK-6 (1945–1949) | Royal Thai Navy asHTMS Tachin (PF-1) (1951–2000) | Preserved, 2001 |
| San Pedro | PF-37 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-5 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Kaya (PF-288) (1953–1967) | To United States for disposal, 1978; sunk as target |
| Coronado | PF-38 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-8 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Sugi (PF-285) (1953–1969) | To United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Ogden | PF-39 | (1943–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-10 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Kusu (PF-281) (1953–1976) | To United States for disposal, 1977 |
| Eugene | PF-40 | (1944–1946) | Cuban Navy asJosé Martí (F301) (1947–1976) | Scrapped, 1976 | |
| El Paso | PF-41 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Van Buren | PF-42 | (1943–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Orange | PF-43 | (1944–1946) | Sold, 1947; scrapped, 1948 | ||
| Corpus Christi | PF-44 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hutchinson | PF-45 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy asARM California (1947–1964) | Sold for scrapping, 1964 | |
| Bisbee | PF-46 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy asEK-17 (1945–1949) | Colombian Navy asARC Capitán Tono (F-12) (1952–1963) | Scrapped, 1963 |
| Gallup | PF-47 | (1944–1945, 1950–1951) | Soviet Navy asEK-22 (1945–1949) | Royal Thai Navy asHTMS Prasae (PF-2) (1951–2000) | Preserved, 2000 |
| Rockford | PF-48 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-18 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy asROKS Apnok (PF-62) (1950–1952) | To United States for disposal, 1952; sunk as target, 1953 |
| Muskogee | PF-49 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-19 (1945–1949) | Republic of Korea Navy asROKS Duman (PF-61) (1950) | Unknown |
| Carson City | PF-50 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-20 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Sakura (PF-290) (1953–1971) | Sold for scrapping, 1971 |
| Burlington | PF-51 | (1944–1945, 1951–1952) | Soviet Navy asEK-21 (1945–1949) | Colombian Navy asARC Almirante Brión (F-14) (1953–1968) | Scrapped, 1968 |
| Allentown | PF-52 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-9 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Ume (PF-289) (1953–1970) | To United States for disposal, 1971 |
| Machias | PF-53 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-4 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Nara (PF-282) (1953–1966) | Sold for scrapping, 1969 |
| Sandusky | PF-54 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-7 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Nire (PF-287) (1953–1970) | To United States for disposal, 1970 |
| Bath | PF-55 | (1944–1945) | Soviet Navy asEK-29 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Maki (PF-298) (1953–1971) | Sold for scrapping, 1971 |
| Covington | PF-56 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard asUSCGC Covington (1946) Ecuadorian Navy asBAE Guayas (E-21) (1947–1972) | Stricken, 1974 | |
| Sheboygan | PF-57 | (1944–1946) | Belgian Navy asLieutenant ter zee Victor Billet (F910) (1947–1957) | Scrapped, 1959 | |
| Abilene (ex-Bridgeport) | PF-58 | (1944–1946) | the Netherlands civilian government asSS Cirrus (1947–1969) | Sold for scrapping, 1969 | |
| Beaufort | PF-59 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Charlotte | PF-60 | (1944–1946) | Sold, 1947; became Brazilian coastal passenger ship; scrapped 1965 | ||
| Manitowoc | PF-61 | (1944–1946) | US Coast Guard asUSCGC Manitowoc (1946) French Navy asLe Brix (F715) (1947–1958) | Scrapped, 1958 | |
| Gladwyne (ex-Worcester) | PF-62 | (1944–1946) | Mexican Navy asARM Papaloapan (1947–1965) | Scrapped, 1965 | |
| Moberly (ex-Scranton) | PF-63 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Knoxville | PF-64 | (1944–1946) | Dominican Navy asPresidente Peynado (F104) (laterCapitán General Pedro Santana) (1947–1979) | Scrapped, 1979 | |
| Uniontown (ex-Chattanooga) | PF-65 | (1944–1945) | Argentine Navy asARA Sarandí (P-33) (1947–1968) | Unknown | |
| Reading | PF-66 | (1944–1946) | Argentine Navy asARA Heroína (P-32) (1947–1966) | Scrapped, 1966 | |
| Peoria | PF-67 | (1945–1946) | Cuban Navy asCuban frigate Antonio Maceo (F302) (1947–1975) | Sunk as target, 1975 | |
| Brunswick | PF-68 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Davenport | PF-69 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1946 | ||
| Evansville | PF-70 | (1944–1945, 1950–1953) | Soviet Navy asEK-30 (1945–1949) | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force asJDS Keyaki (PF-295) (1953–1976) | To United States for disposal, 1976; scrapped, 1977 |
| New Bedford | PF-71 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hallowell (ex-Machias) | PF-72 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Anguilla (K500) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hamond | PF-73 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Antigua (K501) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping | ||
| Hargood | PF-74 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Ascension (K502) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hotham | PF-75 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Bahamas (K503)) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Halstead | PF-76 | 1943–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Barbados (K504) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hannam | PF-77 | 1943–1945 Royal Navy asHMS Caicos (K505) | To Argentine Navy asARA Trinidad (P-34) /ARA Santísima Trinidad /ARA Comodoro Augusto Lasserre (Q-9) (1947–1969) | Scrapped, 1971 | |
| Harland | PF-78 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Cayman (K506) | Returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1947 | ||
| Harman | PF-79 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Dominica (K507) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Harvey | PF-80 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Labuan (K584) (ex-Gold Coast) | Returned to United States 1946; sold for scrapping 1957 | ||
| Holmes | PF-81 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Tobago (K585) (ex-Hong Kong) | Returned to United States, 1946; Egyptian civilian passenger ship, 1950–1956; sunk as blockship, 1956 | ||
| Hornby | PF-82 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Montserrat (K586) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Hoste | PF-83 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Nyasaland (K587) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Howett | PF-84 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Papua (K588) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold, 1947; Egyptian passenger vessel, 1950–1956 | ||
| Pilford | PF-85 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Pitcairn (K589) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pasley (laterSt. Helena) | PF-86 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS St. Helena (K590) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Patton | PF-87 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Sarawak (K591) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Pearl | PF-88 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Seychelles (K592) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Phillimore | PF-89 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Perim (K593) (ex-Sierra Leone) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Popham | PF-90 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Somaliland (K594) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Peyton | PF-91 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Tortola (K595) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Prowse | PF-92 | 1944–1946 Royal Navy asHMS Zanzibar (K596) | Returned to United States, 1946; sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Lorain (ex-Roanoke) | PF-93 | (1945–1946) | French Navy asLa Place (F713) (1947–1950) | Sunk by mine, 1950 | |
| Milledgeville (ex-Sitka) | PF-94 | (1945–1946) | Sold, 1947; scrapped, 1948 | ||
| Stamford | PF-95 | — | — | — | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 |
| Macon | PF-96 | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 | |||
| Lorain (ex-Vallejo) | PF-97 | Cancelled, 11 February 1944 | |||
| Milledgeville | PF-98 | Cancelled, 31 December 1943 | |||
| Orlando | PF-99 | (1944–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Racine | PF-100 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1947 | ||
| Greensboro | PF-101 | (1945–1946) | Sold for scrapping, 1948 | ||
| Forsyth | PF-102 | (1945–1946) | To US Coast Guard asUSCGC Forsyth (1946) To the Netherlands civilian government asSS Cumulus (1947–1963) | Scrapped, 1969 |
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