USS ''Pueblo'' (PF-13), a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pueblo, Colorado.

Construction

The second ''Pueblo'' (PF-13) was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1431) at the

Kaiser Cargo, Inc. The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II. Kaiser ranked 20th among U.S. corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. The shipyards were owned by the Kaiser ...

, Yard #4, in

Richmond, California Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council.

, on 14 November 1943; launched on 20 January 1944, sponsored by Seaman Carol Barnhart, USN (W); and commissioned on 27 May 1944.

Service history

Following shakedown off the southern California coast, ''Pueblo'' fitted out with highly sensitive

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instruments, reported for duty as a weather tracking ship with the

Western Sea Frontier Sea Frontiers were several, now disestablished, commands of the United States Navy as areas of defense against enemy vessels, especially submarines, along the U.S. coasts. They existed from 1 July 1941 until in some cases the 1970s. Sea Frontiers ...

, on 26 October 1944. Assigned to the

Northern California Northern California (colloquially known as NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. Spanning the state's northernmost 48 counties, its main population centers incl ...

Sector, and based at San Francisco, she patrolled on ocean weather stations, reporting weather conditions and acting as

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ship beneath the trans-pacific air routes, until March 1946. Then ordered to the east coast, she departed California on the 13th and headed for

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

, and inactivation. Decommissioned on 6 April 1946, she was sold to J. C. Berkwitz and Company, New York City, on 22 September 1947, and resold, a year later, to the government of the Dominican Republic. Originally renamed ''Presidente Troncoso'' (F103), the ship was again renamed ''Gregorio Luperón'', before being scrapped in 1982.

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External links

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