USS Machias (PF-53) [SEP] vessel class
USS Machias (PF-53)
The second USS "Machias" (PF-53) was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1945 which later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-4 and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS "Nara" (PF-2), JDS "Nara" (PF-282) and YTE-8.
Construction and commissioning.
"Machias" originally was authorized as a patrol gunboat with the hull number PG-161, but she was redesignated as a patrol frigate with the hull number PF-53 on 15 April
Japanese ship Nara
Several ships have been named :
- , the lead ship of her class of the Imperial Japanese Navy; renamed and re-rated as a minesweeper in June 1930; demilitarized in November 1940
- , a of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
- JDS "Nara" (PF-2, PF-282), a "Kusu"-class patrol frigate of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, formerly USS "Machias" (PF-53)
See also.
- Nara (disambiguation)