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USS DAVENPORT PF-69
Named for a city in Iowa.
Builder: Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
Length: 303' 11"
Beam: 37' 6"
Draft: 12' 8" fl
Displacement: 2,230 tons
Propulsion: 2-shaft VTE, 3 boilers
Range: 9,500 nm at 12 knots
Top speed: 20 knots
Complement: 190
Armament: 3 x 3"/50; 4 x 40mm (2x2); 9 x 20mm; 1 x Hedgehog, 8 x depth charge projectors; 2 x depth charge racks.
For those frigates fitted out for weather patrol duty, the after 3-inch gun was removed and a weather balloon hanger was
added aft.
She was launched 8 December 1943 by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission
contract. The frigate was sponsored by Mrs. E. Frick and transferred to the Navy 1 June 1944 and placed in service the same
day. She was then placed out of service for additional work a week later and was commissioned in full 15 February 1945 under
the command of CDR H. F. Stolfi, USCG. She was decommissioned 4 February 1946. She was sold 6 June 1946.(USCG Records)
Commissioning
February 15, 1945
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| Courtesy of James M. Gow, Jr. |
OFFICERS OF THE USS DAVENPORT
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| Courtesy of Peter K. DeSomma |
USS (CG) POCATELLO PF-9
The contributor says: Attached is PF-9
photo taken from USCG Haida upon relief (30 days on and ten off) at weather station able 1500 nautical West off the Straight
of Juan de Fuca 1944. The deck is rigging a ship to ship line. Photo was from my father Anthony E. DeSomma who
was stationed on her during her construction until decommissioning. He was given the masthead pennant. He was the plankowner.
PLease include in your great collection. My Dad was a proud Coastie.
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Taken from the U.S.S Muscogee, one relieving the other at weather station 3 in the Davis
Straits between Labrador and Greenland.
January 1946. . . Mid Atlantic . . . Second from left Norman Crosby. . . third from
left is Fred Lutz.
December 1945 . . . Cape Hatteras, Fred with "Snipe" the ship's mascot.
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CHARLESTON HARBOR, SC
June 26, 1945
HEAVY WEATHER ON OCEAN STATION 4
October 19, 1945 about 800 NE of St Johns Newfoundland
MASTCOT "Butch" IN DRESS WHITES WITH BM1 VINCE GROBBEL
June 1945
Folly Beach near Charleston, SC
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