USS Evansville (PF-70)

Career
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Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	27 November 1943
Commissioned:	4 December 1944 29 July 1950
Decommissioned:	9 September 1945 28 February 1953
Struck:
Fate:	Scrapped in 1977
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,430 tons (light), 2,415 tons (full)
Length:	303 ft 11 in (92.6 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.4 m)
Draft:	13 ft 8 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion:	Three boilers 2 × 5,500 SHP turbines two shafts.
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	190
Armament:	3 × 3 in/50 guns (3x1) 4 × 40mm guns (2x2) 9 × 20mm (9x1) 1 × Hedgehog projector 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge racks
Motto:

USS Evansville (PF-70), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Evansville, Indiana.

Evansville (PF-70) was launched on 27 November 1943 by Leathern D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, sponsored by Mrs. Don Davis, daughter of the Mayor of Evansville, Indiana; and commissioned on 4 December 1944, with Lieutenant Commander G. T. Applegate, USCG, in command.

Evansville sailed down the Mississippi River and after calling at Mobile, Alabama, reached Charleston, South Carolina, on 31 December. Through the next 6 months, she had escort duty along the east coast and to Bermuda, patrolled off New York, and served briefly as a weather station ship. She departed New York City on 9 July 1945 bound for San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and Cold Bay, where she was decommissioned on 9 September 1945, having been transferred to the Soviet Union under lend lease on 4 September 1945.

Returned by Russia at Yokosuka, Japan, Evansville was recommissioned on 29 July 1950, and served on patrol out of Yokosuka and in Korean waters until decommissioned on 28 February 1953. On 31 October 1953 she was transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Japan, in whose Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force she served as Keyaki.