USS Peoria (PF-67)

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USS Peoria (PF-67)

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History
USS Peoria (PF-67) off Charleston, South Carolina, following modification to a weather ship, c. June 1945
United States
Name	Peoria
Namesake	City of Peoria, Illinois
Builder	Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Launched	2 October 1943
Completed	25 May 1943
Commissioned	2 January 1945
Decommissioned	15 May 1946
Stricken	19 June 1946
Fate	Sold to Cuba, 16 June 1947
Cuba
Name	Antonio Maceo
Namesake	Antonio Maceo Grajales
Acquired	16 June 1947
Fate	Sunk as a target, 1975
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
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	190
Armament	3 × 3"/50 dual purpose guns (3x1) 4 x 40 mm guns (2×2) 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × Depth charge tracks

USS Peoria (PF-67), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Peoria, Illinois.

Construction

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Peoria was constructed by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, and was completed in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on 25 May 1943. Launched on 2 October 1943, sponsored by Agnes Reynolds, she was commissioned on 2 January 1945, at Houston, Texas, under the command of Commander George R. Leslie, USCG.

Service history

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Peoria's shakedown voyage (or sea trial) commenced on 12 January 1945, bound for the North Atlantic Ocean around Bermuda, and returned successfully to Norfolk, Virginia.

Peoria's first mission, begun on 4 March, was to sail with a convoy for the British Crown colony of Gibraltar. Peoria then continued on to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, concluding her journey on 19 March. She joined a returning convoy from Oran on 27 March, assigned with escorting it to the United States. Peoria then spent a brief amount of time at New York City, until she was called out for use in anti-submarine training at Casco Bay, Maine. On 7 May, she departed Casco Bay bound for New London, Connecticut. Peoria arrived at New London in time for VE day, as World War II concluded. Peoria spent two weeks training submarine crews at New London.

On 21 May, Peoria left New London, assigned to Charleston, South Carolina, where she was to be fitted out for patrol duty in the Atlantic. Peoria was used for weather station work from 21 June, visiting stations in North Atlantic ports from Bermuda to Iceland for a further year.

Decommissioning and sale

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On 15 May 1946, Peoria was officially decommissioned, and her name was removed from the Navy List four days later. Her sale to Cuba was overseen by the Foreign Liquidation Commission, part of the State Department.

Peoria was renamed Antonio Maceo (F-302) on 16 June 1947, and served in the Cuban Navy until 1975, when she was sunk.

References

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Peoria (PF-67).

Photo gallery of USS Peoria at NavSource Naval History
hazegray.org: USS Peoria

Tacoma-class frigates

United States Navy

Completed

Canceled

Royal Navy
Colony class

Anguilla (ex-Machias (PF-72))
Antigua (ex-Hamond)
Ascension (ex-Hargood)
Bahamas (ex-Hotham)
Barbados (ex-Halstead)
Caicos (ex-Hannam)
Cayman (ex-Harland)
Dominica (ex-Harman)
Gold Coast / Labuan (ex-Harvey)
Hong Kong / Tobago (ex-Holmes)
Montserrat (ex-Hornby)
Nyasaland (ex-Hoste)
Papua (ex-Howett)
Pitcairn (ex-Pilford)
St. Helena (ex-Pasley)
Sarawak (ex-Patton)
Seychelles (ex-Pearl)
Sierra Leone / Perim (ex-Phillimore)
Somaliland (ex-Popham)
Tortola (ex-Peyton)
Zanzibar (ex-Prowse)

Soviet Navy

EK-1 (ex-Charlottesville)
EK-2 (ex-Long Beach)
EK-3 (ex-Belfast)
EK-4 (ex-Machias (PF-53))
EK-5 (ex-San Pedro)
EK-6 (ex-Glendale)
EK-7 (ex-Sandusky)
EK-8 (ex-Coronado)
EK-9 (ex-Allentown)
EK-10 (ex-Ogden)
EK-11 (ex-Tacoma)
EK-12 (ex-Pasco)
EK-13 (ex-Hoquiam)
EK-14 (ex-Albuquerque)
EK-15 (ex-Everett)
EK-16 (ex-Sausalito)
EK-17 (ex-Bisbee)
EK-18 (ex-Rockford)
EK-19 (ex-Muskogee)
EK-20 (ex-Carson City)
EK-21 (ex-Burlington)
EK-22 (ex-Gallup)
EK-25 (ex-Bayonne)
EK-26 (ex-Gloucester)
EK-27 (ex-Poughkeepsie)
EK-28 (ex-Newport)
EK-29 (ex-Bath)
EK-30 (ex-Evansville)

Post-World War II operators
United States Coast Guard	Brownsville Bangor Muskegon Woonsocket Corpus Christi Covington Sheboygan Beaufort Manitowoc Forsyth
Argentine Navy	Heroína (ex-Reading) Sarandí (ex-Uniontown) Trinidad / Santísima Trinidad / Comodoro Augusto Lasserre (ex-Caicos)
Belgian Navy	Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet (ex-Sheboygan)
Colombian National Navy	Almirante Padilla (ex-Groton) Capitán Tono (ex-Bisbee) Almirante Brión (ex-Burlington)
Cuban Revolutionary Navy	José Martí (ex-Eugene) Antonio Maceo (ex-Peoria) Maximo Gomez (ex-Grand Island)
Dominican Navy	Presidente Troncoso / Gregorio Luperón (ex-Pueblo) Presidente Peynado / Capitán General Pedro Santana (ex-Knoxville)
Ecuadorian Navy	Guayas (ex-Covington)
French Navy	La Place (ex-Lorain (PF-93)) Mermoz (ex-Muskegon) Le Brix (F715) (ex-Manitowoc) Le Verrier (ex-Emporia)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force	Kusu / YAC-22 (ex-Ogden) Nara / YTE-8 (ex-Machias (PF-53)) Kashi / YAC-12 (ex-Pasco) Momi / YAC-13 (ex-Poughkeepsie) Sugi (ex-Coronado) Matsu / YAS-36 (ex-Charlottesville) Nire / YAC-19 (ex-Sandusky) Kaya / YAC-23 (ex-San Pedro) Ume / YAC-14 (ex-Allentown) Sakura / YAC-16 (ex-Carson City) Kiri / YAC-20 (ex-Everett) Tsuge (ex-Gloucester) Kaede / YAC-17 (ex-Newport) Buna / YAC-11 (ex-Bayonne) Keyaki / YAC-21 (ex-Evansville) Tochi / YAC-15 (ex-Albuquerque) Shii / YAS-44 (ex-Long Beach) Maki / YTE-9 (ex-Bath)
Republic of Korea Navy	Duman (ex-Muskogee) Apnok (ex-Rockford) Taedong (ex-Tacoma) Nae Tong (ex-Hoquiam) Imchin (ex-Sausalito)
Mexican Navy	California (ex-Hutchinson) General José María Morelos / Golfo de Tehuantepec (ex-Bangor) General Vicente Guerrero / Río Usumacinta (ex-Annapolis) Papaloapan (ex-Gladwyne)
Netherlands Government	Cirrus (ex-Abilene) Cumulus (ex-Forsyth)
Peruvian Navy	Teniente Gálvez / Gálvez (ex-Woonsocket)
Royal Thai Navy	Tachin (ex-Glendale) Prasae (ex-Gallup)

Preceded by: Asheville class (USN) / River class (RN)
Followed by: None

List of Project Hula ships

v t e Ships built by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Tacoma-class frigates	Brunswick Davenport Evansville Knoxville New Bedford Peoria Reading Uniontown
PC-461-class submarine chasers	PC-496 PC-550 PC-551 PC-588 PC-589 PC-590 PC-591 PC-821 PC-822 PC-823 PC-824 PC-825 PC-1171 PC-1172 PC-1173 PC-1174 PC-1175 PC-1176 PC-1177 PC-1178 PC-1179 / Morris PC-1180 PC-1225 PC-1226 PC-1227 PC-1228 / Munising PC-1229 PC-1230 / Grinnell PC-1260 PC-1261 PC-1262 PC-1263 PC-1560 PC-1561 PC-1562 PC-1563 PC-1564 PC-1565 PC-1566 PC-1567 PC-1568 PC-1569
Alamosa-class cargo ships Type C1-M-AV1 ships	Poinsett Pontotoc Richland Rockdale Schuyler Screven Sebastian Somerset / Coastal Sentry Sussex Tarrant Tipton Traverse^* Tulare^** Washtenaw^† / Sgt. George Peterson Westchester^# Wexford^‡ / Coastal Crusader
Net laying ships	Passaic Shakamaxon Tonawanda
* = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Merchant ** = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Challenger † = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Guide # = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Defender ‡ = Canceled August 1945, but completed as Coastal Crusader

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1975
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: Lake Illawarra 20 Jan: Danesh 29 Jan: Jakob Maersk 17 Mar: Red Eagle 4 Apr: MV Spartan Lady 15 Apr: USS Killen 27 Apr: USS Carbonero 11 May: USS Bell 13 Jun: USS Moore 19 Jul: Herma A 20 Aug: USS Mona Island 30 Aug: Otvazhny 10 Nov: Edmund Fitzgerald 28 Dec: Kim Hua Li 30 Dec: Berge Istra Unknown date: Aviere, Antonio Maceo
Other incidents	9 Jan: Transcontainer I 2 Feb: Moskva 12 May: Mayaguez 15 May: Mayaguez 16 Jul: Frank D. Moores 22 Aug: ARA Santísima Trinidad 9 Sep: Waage Drill II 22 Oct: NOAAS Miller Freeman 22 Nov: USS Belknap, USS John F. Kennedy 9 Nov: Storozhevoy
1974 1976

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