Name This Peoria Landmark

Tacoma Class Patrol Frigate: (MC Type T. S2-S2-AQ1) Originally authorized as Patrol Gunboat, PG-175; Redesignated a Patrol Frigate, PF-67, April 15, 1943

Laid down May 25, 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched October 2, 1943

Accepted by the Navy in July 1944 and placed in service to be ferried to another port for further outfitting

Delivered in October 1944

Placed in commission October 15, 1944, probably for the purpose of moving her from the Great Lakes area to the Gulf of Mexico

Placed in full commission as USS Peoria (PF-67), January 2, 1945 at Houston, TX

On March 4, 1945 she made her only wartime operational voyage, escorting a convoy to Gibraltar and returning to the U.S. with another convoy from Algeria.

Peoria then spent a brief amount of time in New York, until she was sent to Casco Bay, ME for use in anti-submarine training.

Departed Casco Bay for New London, CT, May 7, 1945 to assist in training of submarine crews.

Assigned to Charleston, SC, May 21, 1945 to be retrofitted as a weather station ship to work in the north Atlantic.

Decommissioned May 15, 1946;

Struck from the Navy Register June 19, 1946

Turned over to the State Department Liquidation Commission and sold to Cuba as Antonio Maceo (F-302), June 16, 1947

Sunk as a target in 1975.

 

History courtesy of a combination of three sources:

NavSource Online – Frigate Photo Archive (photo borrowed from here, who borrowed it from the “Historical Collections of the Great Lakes”)
Wikipedia
Naval Historical Center (Josh’s Site)

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