USS Poughkeepsie (PF-26)
JDS Momi in 1953 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Poughkeepsie |
| Namesake | City of Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Reclassified | PF-26, 15 April 1943 |
| Builder | Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin |
| Yard number | 23 |
| Laid down | 3 June 1943 |
| Launched | 12 August 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Frank M. Doran |
| Commissioned | 6 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 2 September 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 2 September 1945 |
| Acquired | Returned by Soviet Navy, 31 October 1949 |
| In service | with Shipping Control Authority for the Japanese Merchant Marine, 1951 |
| Fate | Transferred to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 14 January 1953 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | EK-27 |
| Acquired | 2 September 1945 |
| Commissioned | 2 September 1945 |
| Fate | Returned to United States, 31 October 1949 |
| Japan | |
| Name | Momi |
| Acquired | 14 January 1953 |
| Renamed | YAC-13, 1 April 1965 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1965 |
| Fate | Transferred to South Korea for cannibalization for spare parts, early 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Tacoma-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 303 ft 11 in (92.63 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 190 |
| Armament |
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USS Poughkeepsie (PF-26), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Poughkeepsie, New York. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-27 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Momi (PF-4), JDS Momi (PF-284), and as YAC-13.