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{{short description|Tacoma-class patrol frigate}}
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|Ship caption=USS ''Hoquiam'' at [[Mare Island Navy Yard]], [[Vallejo, California|Vallejo]], [[California]], on 14 June 1944.
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1951}}
|Ship name=''Hoquiam''
|Ship namesake=City of [[Hoquiam, Washington|Hoquiam]], Washington
|Ship ordered= as a [[Patrol frigate|Type S2-S2-AQ1]] hull, [[Maritime Commission|MCE]] hull 1423{{sfn|Kaiser No. 4|2014}}
|Ship builder=[[Permanente Metals]] [[Richmond Shipyards|Richmond Shipyard #4]], [[Richmond, California|Richmond]], California
|Ship yard number=48{{sfn|Kaiser No. 4|2014}}
|Ship laid down= 10 April 1943
|Ship reclassified=Patrol Frigate (PF), 15 April 1943
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|Ship launched= 31 July 1943
|Ship sponsor= Miss Helen Philbrick
|Ship commissioned= 8 May 1944
|Ship decommissioned= 16 August 1945
|Ship identification=*[[Hull classification symbol#Patrol combatant type|Hull symbol]]: PG-113
*Hull symbol: PF-5
*[[Maritime call sign|Call sign]]: NZCY
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|Ship fate=Transferred to [[Soviet Navy]], 16 August 1945
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|Ship country=Soviet Union
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval-1935}}
|Ship name= ''EK-13''{{efn|name=fn1}}
|Ship acquired=16 August 1945
|Ship commissioned=16 August 1945{{efn|name=fn2}}
|Ship decommissioned=1 November 1949
|Ship struck=
|Ship fate= returned to United States, 1 November 1949
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1951}}
|Ship name=''Tacoma''
|Ship acquired=1 November 1949
|Ship recommissioned=27 September 1950
|Ship decommissioned= 5 October 1951
|Ship honors=[[Image:Bronze-service-star-3d.png|18px]] 5 × [[Battle star#Navy warships|battle stars]] for [[Korean War]] service
|Ship fate= transferred to [[Republic of Korea Navy]], 6 October 1951
|Ship struck= 1 August 1972
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|Ship country=South Korea
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|South Korea|naval}}
|Ship name=''Nae Tong''
|Ship acquired= 6 October 1951
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|Ship decommissioned= 
|Ship identification= Hull symbol: PF-65
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|Ship fate= Scrapped, 1973
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|Ship complement=190
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'''USS ''Hoquiam'' (PG-113/PF-5)''', a {{sclass|Tacoma|frigate|0}} [[patrol frigate]] in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1951, she is the only ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for [[Hoquiam, Washington|Hoquiam]], Washington. She also served in the [[Soviet Navy]] as '''''EK-13''''' and in the [[Republic of Korea Navy]] as '''ROKS ''Nae Tong'' (PF-65)'''.

==Construction and commissioning==
''Hoquiam'' was [[Keel laying|laid down]] under [[Maritime Commission]] (MARCOM) contract, MC hull No. 1423, by [[Permanente Metals]] [[Richmond Shipyards|Richmond Shipyard #4]], [[Richmond, California|Richmond]], California, on 10 April 1943. as a [[gunboat|patrol gunboat]], '''PG-113''', and was reclassified as a patrol frigate, '''PF-5''', on 15 April 1943. [[Ship naming and launching|Launched]] on 31 July 1943; sponsored by Miss Helen Philbrick; ''Hoquiam'' was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 8 May 1944, with [[Lieutenant Commander (United States)|Lieutenant Commander]] [[Paul E. Trimble|P. E. Trimble]], [[United States Coast Guard|USCG]], in command.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

==Service history==

===US Navy, World War II, 1944–1945===
After [[shakedown cruise|shakedown]] off the coast of [[Southern California]], ''Hoquiam'' departed [[San Francisco]], California, on 20 August 1944, called at [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], and arrived at [[Kodiak, Alaska|Kodiak]], [[Territory of Alaska]], on 27 August 1944 for duty with the [[Alaskan Sea Frontier]].{{sfn|DANFS|2015}} On 8 March 1945, she became the second racially integrated American naval warship since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] when Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander [[Carlton Skinner]] arrived to assume command accompanied by two black officers and thirty colored enlisted men.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/08005.htm |title=Hoquiam (PF 5) |publisher=NavSource Naval History |access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://compass.coastguard.blog/2017/02/23/the-long-blue-line-coast-guard-officers-jenkins-and-russell/ |title=The Long Blue Line: Coast Guard Officers Jenkins and Russell—Trailblazers of Ethnic Diversity in the American Sea services |first=William H. |last=Thiesen |date=23 February 2017 |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927180358/https://compass.coastguard.blog/2017/02/23/the-long-blue-line-coast-guard-officers-jenkins-and-russell/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://compass.coastguard.blog/2017/10/26/tlbl-sea-cloud-and-hoquiam/ |title=The Long Blue Line: Cutters Sea Cloud and Hoquiam—Barrier-breaking ships in U.S. Desegregation |first=William H. |last=Thiesen |date=26 October 2017 |publisher=U.S. Coast Guard |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225152329/https://compass.coastguard.blog/2017/10/26/tlbl-sea-cloud-and-hoquiam/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''Hoquiam'' patrolled island waters along the Alaskan coast until June 1945{{sfn|DANFS|2015}} when &ndash; having been selected for transfer to the [[Soviet Navy]] in [[Project Hula]], a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at [[Cold Bay, Alaska|Cold Bay]], Alaska, in anticipation of the [[Soviet Union]] joining the [[Pacific War|war against Japan]] &ndash; she returned to Seattle for an overhaul to prepare her for transfer. She then proceeded to Cold Bay and began training her new Soviet crew.{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=39}}

===Soviet Navy, 1945–1949===
Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, ''Hoquiam'' was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] on 16 August 1945, at Cold Bay, and transferred to the Soviet Union under [[Lend-Lease]] immediately along with her [[sister ship]]s {{USS|Tacoma|PF-3|3}}, {{USS|Sausalito|PF-4|3}}, {{USS|Pasco|PF-6|3}}, {{USS|Albuquerque|PF-7|3}}, and {{USS|Everett|PF-8|3}}. Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,{{efn|name=fn2}} ''Hoquiam'' was designated as a ''storozhevoi korabl'' ("escort ship") and renamed '''''EK-13'''''{{efn|name=fn1}} in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound for [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]] in the Soviet Union, where she served as a patrol vessel in the [[Soviet Far East]].{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=39}}

In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947, [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] [[James V. Forrestal]] informed the [[United States Department of State]] that the [[United States Department of the Navy]] wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, ''EK-13'' among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships were protracted, but on 1 November 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned ''EK-13'' to the U.S. Navy at [[United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|Yokosuka]], [[Japan]].{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=39}}

===U.S. Navy, Korean War, 1950&ndash;1951===
Reverting to her former name, ''Hoquiam'' lay idle in the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]] at Yokosuka until the outbreak of the [[Korean War]] on 25 June 1950 created a need for more U.S. Navy escorts. She recommissioned on 27 September 1950 with Lieutenant Commander E. A. Lane in command. Following a brief shakedown, she departed to join [[United Nations]] naval forces in off [[Korea]]. Arriving off [[Wonsan]] on 25 October 1950, she served as a harbor control and screening ship during [[amphibious landing]]s. For the next two months she performed patrol, escort, harbor control, and communications duties along the northeastern coast of Korea.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

In late December 1950, ''Hoquiam'' assisted with harbor control operations during the [[Battle of Chosin Reservoir|evacuation]] at [[Hungnam]] before leaving for Japan. Arriving at Yokosuka on 30 December 1950, she underwent a brief overhaul, then served as a drone [[target ship]] off the coast of Japan from late January until early March 1951. She returned to Korean waters on 8 March 1951 and over the next six months operated along the east coast of Korea from Wonsan to [[Songjin]]. She participated in interdiction and harassment patrols designed to destroy enemy coastal shipping, conducted [[antisubmarine warfare]] operations off Wonsan, and bombarded enemy shore installations and coastal supply routes.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

While engaging enemy shore positions on 7 May 1951, ''Hoquiam'' was damaged by gunfire. She returned to Japan, arriving at Yokosuka on 16 May 1951 for repairs. Following repairs, she departed on 4 June 1951, called at [[United States Fleet Activities Sasebo|Sasebo]], Japan, and then proceeded to Wonsan, where she arrived on 10 June 1951 to resume bombardment and interdiction duty. She continued patrolling the eastern coast of Korea until September 1951. After returning to Yokosuka on 9 September 1951, she was decommissioned on 5 October 1951.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

===Republic of Korea Navy, 1951&ndash;1973===
Upon decommissioning, the ship immediately was leased to the [[Republic of Korea]], and the U.S. Navy eventually struck her name from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 1 August 1972. She served the [[Republic of Korea Navy]] as '''ROKS ''Nae Tong'' (PF-65)''' from 1951 until she was scrapped in 1973.{{sfn|Navsource}}

==Awards==
The U.S. Navy awarded ''Hoquiam'' five [[battle star]]s for her Korean War service.{{sfn|DANFS|2015}}

== Notes ==
{{notelist|refs=
{{efn|name=fn1|The ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' ''Hoquaim'',{{sfn|DANFS|2015}} article states that ''Hoquaiam'' was named '''''EK-14''''' in [[Soviet]] service and ''NavSource Online: Frigate Photo Archive Hoquaim (PF 5) ex-PG-113'',{{sfn|Navsource}} repeats this, but ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'',{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=39}} which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [[Cold War]], reports that the ship's Soviet name was '''''EK-13'''''. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, ''Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels'' Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., ''Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik'' ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.}}
{{efn|name=fn2|According to ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [[Cold War]], [[Project Hula]] ships were commissioned into the [[Soviet Navy]] simultaneously with their transfer from the US Navy; see photo captions on p. 24 regarding the transfers of various [[large infantry landing craft]] (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of {{USS|Coronado|PF-38|3}}, which Russell says typified the transfer process. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, ''Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels'' Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., ''Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik'' ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.}}
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==References==
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== Bibliography ==
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite DANFS
  | url = https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/h/hoquiam.html
  | title = Hoquiam (PF-5)
  | publisher = Naval History and Heritage Command
  | date = 20 July 2015
  | access-date = 6 November 2018
  | ref = {{sfnRef|DANFS|2015}}
  }}{{PD-notice}}
* {{cite web
  | url = http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/krichmond.htm
  | title = Kaiser Permanente No. 4, Richmond CA
  | publisher =  ShipbuildingHistory.com
  | date = 5 February 2014
  | access-date = 6 November 2018
  | ref = {{sfnRef|Kaiser No. 4|2014}}
  }}
* {{cite web
  | url = http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/08005.htm
  | title= Hoquiam (PF 5)
  | publisher= Navsource.org
  | access-date= 6 November 2018
  | ref= {{sfnRef|Navsource}}
  }}
* {{cite book
  |last= Russell
  |first= Richard A.
  |title= Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan
  |location= Washington, D.C.
  |publisher= [[Naval Historical Center]]
  |date= 1997
  |isbn= 0-945274-35-1
}}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
* {{navsource|12/08005|USS Hoquiam}}
* [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/patrol/pf5.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Hoquiam'']

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