USS Hutchinson, a 1430-ton frigate built at Los Angeles, California, was commissioned in early February 1944. She was sent to the southwestern Pacific in the spring and in November performed escort and patrol missions in Leyte Gulf. While there she several times engaged attacking Japanese aircraft. Later in 1944 Hutchinson steamed to Fremantle, Australia, to assist in training submarines. She continued with that work until the end of World War II. The frigate arrived back in U.S. waters early in 1946 and was modified for northern Pacific weather reporting service. That April she was decommissioned by the Navy and formally loaned to the Coast Guard, which had provided her crew during her entire Naval career. As a Coast Guard ship Hutchinson made three weather reporting cruises before being placed out of commission in September 1946 and returned to the Navy. Sold to Mexico in November 1947, she was renamed California and served in that nation's Navy until scrapped in 1964.
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