USSSheboygan
Luitenant ter zee Victor Billet

Luitenant ter zee Victor Billet in Belgian service
History
United States
Name	Sheboygan
Namesake	City ofSheboygan, Wisconsin
Builder	Globe Shipbuilding Company,Superior, Wisconsin
Laid down	17 April 1943
Launched	31 July 1943
Commissioned	26 May 1944
Decommissioned	1 June 1944
Recommissioned	14 October 1944
Decommissioned	9 August 1946
Identification	PF-57
Fate	Sold to Belgium, 19 March 1947
Belgium
Name	Luitenant ter zee Victor Billet
Acquired	19 March 1947
Stricken	1957
Identification	F 910
Fate	Converted to training hulk, 1958 Scrapped, 1959
General characteristics
Class & type	Tacoma-classfrigate
Displacement	1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
Length	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion	2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts
Speed	20knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	3 ×3"/50 dual purpose guns (3x1) 4 x40 mm guns (2×2) 9 ×20 mm guns (9×1) 1 ×Hedgehoganti-submarine mortar 8 ×Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × Depth charge tracks

USSSheboygan (PF-57) was aTacoma-classfrigate of theUnited States Navy which was later transferred to theBelgian Navy asLieutenant ter zee Victor Billet.

Sheboygan was laid down on 17 April 1943, under aMaritime Commission contract by theGlobe Shipbuilding Company atSuperior, Wisconsin; sponsored by Mrs. Willard M. Sonnenburg; and placed in reduced commission atNew Orleans, Louisiana, on 26 May 1944, withLieutenant CommanderA. J. Carpenter,USCG, in command. It is the only ship of theUnited States Navy to be named forSheboygan, Wisconsin.

Ordered toTampa, Florida, for conversion to aweather patrol ship,Sheboygan wasdecommissioned on 1 June. On 14 October 1944, she was recommissioned. Shakedown inBermuda followed; and on 21 February, the frigate arrived atNS Argentia,Newfoundland, for weather patrol duty.

As a Navy ship, she performed weather andplane guard patrols in theNorth Atlantic, broken by periods of upkeep in Naval Station Argentia, andBoston, Massachusetts, until transferred to theUnited States Coast Guard on 14 March 1946. Her work in the North Atlantic, however, continued until she was decommissioned on 9 August 1946.

She was sold on 19 March 1947 toBelgium and served in theBelgian Navy asLuitenant ter zee Victor Billet until converted to a stationary traininghulk in 1958, and was scrapped in 1959.

 This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.

• Photo gallery of USSSheboygan at NavSource Naval History
• hazegray.org: USSSheboygan

• Tacoma-class frigates
• Ships built in Superior, Wisconsin
• 1943 ships
• World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
• Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Belgian Navy
• Tacoma-class frigates of the Belgian Navy

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