Cancelled Tacoma-class frigate
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History |
United States |
Name | Milledgeville |
Namesake | City of Milledgeville, Georgia |
Builder | American Shipbuilding Company, Lorain, Ohio |
Laid down | Canceled |
Reclassified | From patrol gunboat, PG-206, to patrol frigate, PF-98, 15 April 1943 |
Fate | Construction contract cancelled, 31 December 1943 |
General characteristics |
Class and type | Tacoma-class frigate |
Displacement | 1,264 long tons (1,284 t) |
Length | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
Beam | 37 ft 11 in (11.56 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
Propulsion |
- 2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines
- 3 boilers
- 2 shafts
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 190 |
Armament | |
USS Milledgeville (PF-98) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate authorized for construction during World War II but cancelled before construction could begin.
Milledgeville originally was authorized as a patrol gunboat with the hull number PG-206, but she was redesignated as a patrol frigate with the hull number PF-98 on 15 April 1943.
Plans called for Milledgeville to be built under a Maritime Commission contract by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain, Ohio, as a Maritime Commission Type T. S2-S2-AQ1 hull. However, the contract for her construction for the U.S. Navy was cancelled on 31 December 1943 prior to the laying of her keel.
On 7 February 1944, the cancelled Milledgeville's incomplete sister ship, the Tacoma-class patrol frigate USS Sitka (PF-94) was renamed USS Milledgeville (PF-94).
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