USS Bath (PF-55)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Bath |
| Namesake | City of Bath, Maine |
| Reclassified | PF-55, 15 April 1943 |
| Builder | Froemming Brothers, Inc., Milwaukee, and Pendleton Shipyards, New Orleans |
| Laid down | 23 August 1943 |
| Launched | 14 November 1943 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Fred R. E. Dean |
| Commissioned | 9 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 4 September 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy 4 September 1945 |
| Acquired | Returned by Soviet Navy, 15 November 1949 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, 13 December or 23 December 1953 |
| Stricken | 1 December 1961 |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | EK-29 |
| Acquired | 4 September 1945 |
| Commissioned | 4 September 1945 |
| Fate | Returned to United States, 15 November 1949 |
| Japan | |
| Name | Maki or JDS Matsu (PF-6) |
| Acquired |
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| Decommissioned | 31 March 1966 |
| Renamed | YTE-9, 31 March 1966 |
| In service | 31 March 1966, as non-self-propelled pier-side training ship |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 13 December 1971 |
| 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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The second USS Bath (PF-55) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 which later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-29 and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, with her Japanese name reported by various sources (see below) as JDS Maki (PF-18) and JDS Maki (PF-298), and later as YTE-9.