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Photo # NH 79001:  USS Covington underway in 1945

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Covington (PF-56), 1944-1947

USS Covington, a 1430-ton Tacoma class frigate built at Superior, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract, was transferred to the Navy in August 1944 and placed in "ferry" commission. She was fully commissioned in mid-October 1944, with a crew provided by the U.S. Coast Guard. Covington was employed in the North Atlantic on weather patrol duties from December 1944 until early 1946. She was decommissioned by the Navy in March 1946 but continued in Coast Guard service until the following September. USS Covington was stricken from the list of Naval vessels in April 1947 and, in August of that year, sold to Ecuador. Renamed Guayas, she served in that nation's navy until 1972.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Covington (PF-56).


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Photo #: NH 79001

USS Covington
(PF-56)

Underway in 1945.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 79870

USS Covington
(PF-56), at left,
and
USS Lorain (PF-93)

Docked at New York City, 1946.
The original photograph is dated 11 May 1946, when the ships were on loan to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 45337

Guayas
(Ecuadorian Frigate, 1944-1972)

Photographed circa the later 1940s or early 1950s.
This ship was originally USS Covington (PF-56), which was sold to Ecuador in 1947.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 7KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 


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