USS Moberly (PF-63)

History
USS Moberly (PF-63)

Name:	Scranton (1943–1944) Moberly (1944–1947)
Namesake:	City of Scranton, Pennsylvania City of Moberly, Missouri
Reclassified:	PF-63, 15 April 1943
Builder:	Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wisconsin
Laid down:	3 November 1943
Launched:	26 January 1944
Renamed:	Moberly, 28 June 1944
Commissioned:	11 December 1944
Decommissioned:	12 August 1946
Struck:	23 April 1947
Honors and awards:	1 × battle star (World War II)
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, 27 October 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tacoma-class frigate
Displacement:	1,430 long tons (1,453 t) light 2,415 long tons (2,454 t) full
Length:	303 ft 11 in (92.63 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draft:	13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
Propulsion:	2 × 5,500 shp (4,101 kW) turbines 3 boilers 2 shafts
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	190
Armament:	3 × 3"/50 dual purpose guns (3x1) 4 x 40 mm guns (2×2) 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1) 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors 2 × Depth charge tracks

USS Moberly (PF-63), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Moberly, Missouri.

Moberly (PF-63), originally designated as PG-171, was reclassified PF-63 on 15 April 1943; laid down as Scranton under Maritime Commission contract by Globe Shipbuilding Company in Superior, Wisconsin, on 3 November 1943; launched on 26 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Howard J. Snowden; renamed Moberly on 28 June 1944; placed "in service" from 1 to 7 September, during transfer to Houston, Texas, for completion of construction by Brown Shipbuilding; and commissioned at Houston on 11 December 1944, with Lieutenant Commander Leslie B. Tollaksen, USCG, in command.

After shakedown off Bermuda, Moberly reported to the Atlantic Fleet on 8 February 1945 for escort duty. Assigned to TG 60.1, she departed Norfolk, Virginia, 22 February in the screen of North African bound convoy UGS-76. She reached Oran, Algeria, 10 March, thence sailed on the 18th with westbound convoy GUS-76. Transferred to TG-60.7 on 29 March, she joined the eastbound convoy UGS-82 in the mid-Atlantic and returned to Oran on 8 April. Once again, the frigate sailed for the United States on 17 April. The escorts left the convoy off New York about noon on 5 May and headed for Boston, Massachusetts.

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