USS Emporia (PF-28)

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Launched:	30 August 1943
Commissioned:	7 October 1944
Decommissioned:	14 March 1946
Struck:
Fate:	Sold to France 26 March 1947
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 AA guns (3x1) 4 × 40mm guns (2x2) 9 × 20mm (9x1) 1 × Hedgehog projector 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge racks
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USS Emporia (PF-28), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Emporia, Kansas.

Emporia (PF-28) was launched on 30 August 1943 at the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company in Superior, Wisconsin, sponsored by Mrs. George M. Barnaby; placed in service between 12 and 22 June 1944 for passage to Houston, Texas; and commissioned on 7 October 1944, with Lieutenant Commander L. Anderson, USCGR, in command.

Emporia arrived at Argentia, Newfoundland, on 3 December 1944 to begin the vitally important duty of relaying weather reports from stations at sea between Newfoundland and Bermuda. Operating primarily in northern latitudes, she accumulated data essential to planning the movement of ships and aircraft throughout the Atlantic. After the close of the war, she continued this duty to aid the movement of troops home from Europe.

On 22 August 1946, Emporia arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, where on 14 March 1946 she was decommissioned, and immediately recommissioned as a ship of the United States Coast Guard. She was again decommissioned on 28 August 1946, and sold to France on 26 March 1947 for continued weather patrol service.