Name USS Macon Laid down Never Length 93 m | Namesake Macon, Georgia Class and type Tacoma-class frigate | |
Reclassified From patrol gunboat, PG-204, to patrol frigate, PF-96, 15 April 1943 Fate Construction contract cancelled 31 December 1943 Builder American Ship Building Company | ||
USS Macon (PF-96) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate authorized for construction during World War II but cancelled before construction could begin.
Macon originally was authorized as a patrol gunboat with the hull number PG-204, but she was redesignated as a patrol frigate with the hull number PF-96 on 15 April 1943. She was assigned the name Macon on 30 August 1943.
Plans called for Macon to be built under a Maritime Commission contract by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain, Ohio, as a Maritime Commission Type T. S2-S2-AQ1 hull. However, the contract for her construction for the U.S. Navy was cancelled on 31 December 1943 prior to the laying of her keel.
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