Name USS Sheboygan Commissioned 26 May 1944 Recommissioned 14 October 1944 Launched 31 July 1943 Beam 11 m | Laid down 17 April 1943 Decommissioned 1 June 1944 Construction started 17 April 1943 Length 93 m | |
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Builder Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin | ||
USS Sheboygan (PF-57) was a Tacoma-class frigate of the United States Navy which was later transferred to the Belgian Navy as Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet.
Service history
Sheboygan was laid down on 17 April 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Globe Shipbuilding Company at Superior, Wisconsin; sponsored by Mrs. Willard M. Sonnenburg; and placed in reduced commission at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 26 May 1944, with Lieutenant Commander A. J. Carpenter, USCG, in command. It the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Ordered to Tampa, Florida, for conversion to a weather patrol ship, Sheboygan was decommissioned on 1 June. On 14 October 1944, she was recommissioned. Shakedown in Bermuda followed; and on 21 February, the frigate arrived at NS Argentia, Newfoundland, for weather patrol duty.
As a Navy ship, she performed weather and plane guard patrols in the North Atlantic, broken by periods of upkeep in Naval Station Argentia, and Boston, Massachusetts, until transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 14 March 1946. Her work in the North Atlantic, however, continued until she was decommissioned on 9 August 1946.
She was sold on 19 March 1947 to Belgium and served in the Belgian Navy as Lieutenant ter zee Victor Billet until converted to a stationary training hulk in 1958, and was scrapped in 1959.