USS Gallup (PF-47)

Gallup at San Pedro, California, on 30 May 1944. The U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships conceived the camouflage scheme of dull black, ocean gray, light gray, and deck blue in which she is painted specifically for her.
History
United States
Name:	USS Gallup
Namesake:	Gallup, New Mexico
Builder:	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California
Yard number:	532
Laid down:	18 August 1943
Launched:	17 September 1943
Sponsored by:	Ensign Helen McMahon, NNRC
Commissioned:	29 February 1944
Decommissioned:	26 August 1945
Identification:	PG-155 PF-47 (15 April 1943)
Honors and awards:	2 battle stars, World War II
Fate:	Transferred to Soviet Navy 26 August 1945
Acquired:	Returned by Soviet Navy, 14 November 1949
Recommissioned:	18 October 1950
Decommissioned:	29 October 1951
Honors and awards:	3 battle stars, Korean War
Fate:	Transferred to Royal Thai Navy, 29 October 1951
Soviet Union
Name:	EK-22
Acquired:	26 August 1945
Commissioned:	26 August 1945
Fate:	Returned to United States, 14 November 1949
Thailand
Name:	HTMS Prasae
Acquired:	29 October 1951
Reclassified:	PF-412
Decommissioned:	22 June 2000
Identification:	PF 2
Fate:	Preserved
Status:	On display as a memorial at the Prasae River, Rayong Province, since 27 December 2003
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tacoma-class frigate
Displacement:	1,430 long tons (1,453 t) light 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) full
Length:	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft:	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	190
Armament:	3 × 3"/50 dual purpose guns (3x1) 4 x 40 mm guns (2×2) 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge tracks

The second USS Gallup (PF-47), a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gallup, New Mexico. She also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-22 and in the Royal Thai Navy as HTMS Prasae (PF 2).

Originally classified as a patrol gunboat, PG-155, Gallup was reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-47, on 15 April 1943. She was launched on 17 September 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by Ensign Helen McMahon, NNRC, and commissioned on 29 February 1944 at San Pedro, California, with Lieutenant Commander Clayton M. Opp, USCG, in command.

Following conversion work at Newport Beach, California, and shakedown out of San Pedro and San Diego, California, Gallup departed San Diego on 1 June 1944 for the Pacific war zone. Conducting anti-submarine patrol en route, she arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 21 June 1944, and began escort and patrol duties in the waters of New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Australia with Escort Division 43. On 17 August 1944, she bombarded enemy strongholds to support landings on Biak Island at Blue Beach, north of the Wardo River by units of the United States Army's 41st Infantry Division; she continued to fire until the troops had completed their landing and secured the beach. Again, on 25 August 1944, Gallup lent support to the conquest of Biak by shelling the beaches between Menoerar and Cape Warari. After Biak had been secured, she returned to her duties with Escort Division 43 until 12 October 1944.