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EK-1 guard ships (1943-1945/1945)

EK-9 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
έΚ-1 [EK-1] (ex-PF25 Charlottesville)   22 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 5/1943 30.7.1943 4.1944 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-2 [EK-2] (ex-PF34 Long Beach)   519 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 3.1943 5.5.1943 9.1943 // 7.1945 to USA 1949
έΚ-3 [EK-3] (ex-PF35 Belfast)   520 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 3/1943 20.5.1943 11.1943 // 7.1945 wrecked 18.12.1948, repair incomplete
έΚ-4 [EK-4] (ex-PF53 Machias)   10 Froemming, Milwaukee, USA 5.1943 22.8.1943 3.1944 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-5 [EK-5] (ex-PF37 San Pedro)   522 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 4.1943 11.6.1943 10.1943 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-6 [EK-6] (ex-PF36 Glendale)   521 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 4/1943 28.5.1943 10.1943 // 7.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-7 [EK-7] (ex-PF54 Sandusky)   11 Froemming, Milwaukee, USA 7.1943 5.10.1943 4.1944 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-8 [EK-8] (ex-PF38 Coronado)   523 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 5/1943 17.6.1943 11.1943 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-9 [EK-9] (ex-PF52 Allentown)   9 Froemming, Milwaukee, USA 1943 3.7.1943 3.1944 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-10 [EK-10] (ex-PF39 Ogden)   524 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 5.1943 23.6.1943 12.1943 // 7.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-11 [EK-11] (ex-PF3 Tacoma)   46 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 3.1943 7.7.1943 11.1943 // 8.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-12 [EK-12] (ex-PF6 Pasco)   49 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 7.1943 17.8.1943 4.1944 // 8.1945 to USA 2.1950
έΚ-13 [EK-13] (ex-PF5 Hoquiam)   48 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 4.1943 31.7.1943 5.1944 // 8.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-14 [EK-14] (ex-PF7 Albuquerque)   50 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 1943 14.9.1943 12.1943 // 8.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-15 [EK-15] (ex-PF8 Everett)   51 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 1943 29.9.1943 1.1944 // 8.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-16 [EK-16] (ex-PF4 Sausalito)   47 Kaiser, Richmond, USA 4.1943 20.7.1943 4.1944 // 8.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-17 [EK-17] (ex-PF46 Bisbee)   531 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 1943 7.9.1943 2.1944 // 9.1945 stricken 2.1950, to USA 10.1950
έΚ-18 [EK-18] (ex-PF48 Rockford)   533 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 8.1943 27.9.1943 3.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-19 [EK-19] (ex-PF49 Muskogee)   534 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 9.1943 18.10.1943 3.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-20 [EK-20] (ex-PF50 Carson City)   535 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 9/1943 13.11.1943 3.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-21 [EK-21] (ex-PF51 Burlington)   536 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 1943 7.12.1943 4.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-22 [EK-22] (ex-PF47 Gallup)   532 Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA 8/1943 17.9.1943 2.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-25 [EK-25] (ex-PF21 Bayonne)   1013 American SB, Cleveland, USA 1943 11.9.1943 2.1945 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-26 [EK-26] (ex-PF22 Gloucester)   19 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 1943 12.7.1943 12.1943 // 9.1945 to USA 10.1949
έΚ-27 [EK-27] (ex-PF26 Poughkeepsie)   23 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 6.1943 12.8.1943 9.1944 // 9.1945 stricken 2.1950, to USA 10.1950
έΚ-28 [EK-28] (ex-PF27 Newport)   24 Walter Butler, Superior, USA 6.1943 15.8.1943 9.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-29 [EK-29] (ex-PF55 Bath)   12 Froemming, Milwaukee, USA 8/1943 14.11.1943 9.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 11.1949
έΚ-30 [EK-30] (ex-PF70 Evansville)   313 Leatham D. Smith SB, Superior, USA 8/1943 27.11.1943 12.1944 // 9.1945 to USA 1949

 

Displacement standard, t

1509

Displacement full, t

2238

Length, m

87.0 wl 92.6 oa

Breadth, m

11.4

Draught, m

3.86

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil 768

Endurance, nm(kts) 9500(12)

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/21, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 9 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog MK 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (100)

Electronic equipment

SA, SL radars, QGA sonar

Complement

190

Project history: Ex-USN frigates of Tacoma class, transferred to USSR on lend-lease without additional re-equipment. Classified as escorts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: EK-3 18.12.1948 ran ashore during a storm at Korsakov (Sakhalin) and later was used as depot and accommodation hulk, she was BU in 1960.

EK-1

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