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  Algonquin WWII

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
WPG75	Algonquin	428	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington		25.7.1934	10/1934	sold 7.1948
WPG76	Comanche	429	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington		16.9.1934	12.1934	sold 11.1948
WPG77	Escanaba	149	Defoe, Bay City		1.10.1932	11.1932	internal explosion 13.6.1943
WPG78	Mohawk	430	Pusey & Jones, Wilmington		1.10.1934	1.1935	sold 11.1948
WPG79	Onondaga	151	Defoe, Bay City		2.8.1934	9.1934	sold 12.1954
WPG80	Tahoma	152	Defoe, Bay City		5.9.1934	10.1934	sold 10.1955

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement full, t	1005
Length, m	45.7 wl 50.3 oa
Breadth, m	11.0
Draught, m	3.73 full load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	WPG75, 76, 78: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers WPG77, 79, 80: 1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	1500
Max speed, kts	12.5
Fuel, t	oil 156
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300 (10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 10
Complement	61

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Project history

Development of Tallapoosa with hull strengthened for ice navigation.

Modernizations

1942 - 1943, Algonquin, Comanche, Escanaba, Mohawk, Tahoma: + (2 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR., SO or SU radar

1942 - 1943, Onondaga: + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, SO or SU radar

1/1946, WPG75, 76, 78, 80: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 11, (2 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, SO or SU radar

1/1946, WPG79: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 11, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, SO or SU radar

Naval service

Escanaba was sunk at coast of Greenland 13.6.1943 as result of internal explosion.