USS Sheboygan (PF-57)

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Career
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Ordered:
Laid down:	17 April 1943
Launched:
Commissioned:	26 May 1944 14 October 1944
Decommissioned:	1 June 1944 9 August 1946
Struck:
Fate:	sold 19 March 1947 to Belgium as Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,264 tons
Length:	303 ft 11 in
Beam:	37 ft 6 in
Draft:	13 ft 8 in
Propulsion:	Three boilers, 2 × 5,500 SHP turbines two shafts
Speed:	20 knots
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 Sheboygan (PF-57), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Sheboygan (PF-57), originally classified PG-165, was reclassified PF-57 on 15 April 1943; laid down on 17 April 1943 under Maritime Commission contract by the Globe Shipbuilding Company at Superior, Wisconsin; sponsored by Mrs. Willard M. Sonnenburg; and placed in reduced commission at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 26 May 1944, with Lieutenant Commander A. J. Carpenter, USCG, in command.

Ordered to Tampa, Florida, for conversion to a weather patrol ship, Sheboygan was decommissioned on 1 June. On 14 October 1944, she was recommissioned. Shakedown in Bermuda followed; and on 21 February, the PF arrived at Argentia, Newfoundland, for weather patrol duty.

As a Navy ship, she performed weather and plane guard patrols in the North Atlantic, broken by periods of upkeep in Argentia, Newfoundland, and Boston, Massachusetts, until transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 14 March 1946. Her work in the North Atlantic, however, continued until she was decommissioned on 9 August 1946.

She was sold on 19 March 1947 to Belgium and served in the Belgian Navy as Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet until modified to a stationary training hulk about 1958.