USS Glendale (PF-36)

USS Glendale, left, with her sister ship Gallup on 29 October 1951 during the ceremony for their transfer to the Royal Thai Navy.
History
United States
Name:	USS Glendale
Namesake:	Glendale, California
Builder:	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California
Laid down:	6 April 1943
Identification:	PG-144 PF-36 (15 April 1943)
Launched:	28 May 1943
Sponsored by:	Miss Shirley Schlichtman
Commissioned:	1 October 1943
Decommissioned:	12 July 1945
Honors and awards:	5 battle stars, World War II
Fate:	Transferred to the Soviet Union, 12 July 1945
Acquired:	Returned by Soviet Union, 16 November 1949
Recommissioned:	11 October 1950
Decommissioned:	29 October 1951
Honors and awards:	4 battle stars, Korean War Korean Presidential Unit Citation
Fate:	Transferred to the Royal Thai Navy, 29 October 1951
Struck:	20 November 1951
Soviet Union
Name:	EK-6
Acquired:	12 July 1945
Commissioned:	12 July 1945
Fate:	Returned to United States, 16 November 1949
Thailand
Name:	HTMS Tachin
Acquired:	29 October 1951
Decommissioned:	22 June 2000
Identification:	PF-1
Fate:	Preserved
Status:	On display as a memorial at the Thai Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, since 9 July 2001
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

USS Glendale (PF-36), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Glendale, California. In commission in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951, she also served in the Soviet Navy as EK-6 from 1945 to 1949 and in the Royal Thai Navy as Tachin (PF-1) from 1951 to 2000.

Originally classified as a patrol gunboat, PG-144, Glendale was reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-36, on 15 April 1943. She was launched on 28 May 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by Miss Shirley Schlichtman and commissioned on 1 October 1943 with Lieutenant Commander Harold J. Doebler, USCG, in command.

Following shakedown off Southern California, Glendale departed San Diego, California, on 12 January 1944 and reached Cairns, Australia, on 17 February 1944. Until late 1944, she served as an anti-submarine and anti-aircraft escort ship based in New Guinea, protecting arriving and departing merchant ships.