USS Long Beach (PF-34) [SEP] vessel class
USS Long Beach (PF-34)
The second USS "Long Beach" (PF-34) was a in commission from 1943 to 1945. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-2 and then in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii" (PF-17) and Shii" (PF-297) and YAS-44.
Construction and commissioning.
"Long Beach" was laid down 19 March 1943, as a patrol gunboat, PG-142, for the Maritime Commission by Consolidated Steel Corporation, in Wilmington, California. Reclassified as
- USS "Long Beach" (CGN-9), the first nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, serving from 1961 to 1995
- Long Beach-class cruiser, a ship class of the United States Navy with only one member, CGN-9
- USS "Long Beach" (PF-34), a patrol frigate in use from 1943 to 1945, loaned to the Russian Navy and then in 1962 to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as "Shii" (PF-17)
Other uses.
- Long Beach