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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
ЭК-1 [EK-1] (ex-PF25 Charlottesville)		22	Walter Butler, Superior, USA	5/1943	30.7.1943	4.1944 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-2 [EK-2] (ex-PF34 Long Beach)		519	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	3.1943	5.5.1943	9.1943 // 7.1945	to USA 1949
ЭК-3 [EK-3] (ex-PF35 Belfast)		520	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	3/1943	20.5.1943	11.1943 // 7.1945	wrecked 18.12.1948, repair incomplete
ЭК-4 [EK-4] (ex-PF53 Machias)		10	Froemming, Milwaukee, USA	5.1943	22.8.1943	3.1944 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-5 [EK-5] (ex-PF37 San Pedro)		522	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	4.1943	11.6.1943	10.1943 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-6 [EK-6] (ex-PF36 Glendale)		521	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	4/1943	28.5.1943	10.1943 // 7.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-7 [EK-7] (ex-PF54 Sandusky)		11	Froemming, Milwaukee, USA	7.1943	5.10.1943	4.1944 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-8 [EK-8] (ex-PF38 Coronado)		523	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	5/1943	17.6.1943	11.1943 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-9 [EK-9] (ex-PF52 Allentown)		9	Froemming, Milwaukee, USA	1943	3.7.1943	3.1944 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-10 [EK-10] (ex-PF39 Ogden)		524	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	5.1943	23.6.1943	12.1943 // 7.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-11 [EK-11] (ex-PF3 Tacoma)		46	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	3.1943	7.7.1943	11.1943 // 8.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-12 [EK-12] (ex-PF6 Pasco)		49	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	7.1943	17.8.1943	4.1944 // 8.1945	to USA 2.1950
ЭК-13 [EK-13] (ex-PF5 Hoquiam)		48	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	4.1943	31.7.1943	5.1944 // 8.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-14 [EK-14] (ex-PF7 Albuquerque)		50	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	1943	14.9.1943	12.1943 // 8.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-15 [EK-15] (ex-PF8 Everett)		51	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	1943	29.9.1943	1.1944 // 8.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-16 [EK-16] (ex-PF4 Sausalito)		47	Kaiser, Richmond, USA	4.1943	20.7.1943	4.1944 // 8.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-17 [EK-17] (ex-PF46 Bisbee)		531	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	1943	7.9.1943	2.1944 // 9.1945	stricken 2.1950, to USA 10.1950
ЭК-18 [EK-18] (ex-PF48 Rockford)		533	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	8.1943	27.9.1943	3.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-19 [EK-19] (ex-PF49 Muskogee)		534	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	9.1943	18.10.1943	3.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-20 [EK-20] (ex-PF50 Carson City)		535	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	9/1943	13.11.1943	3.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-21 [EK-21] (ex-PF51 Burlington)		536	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	1943	7.12.1943	4.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-22 [EK-22] (ex-PF47 Gallup)		532	Consolidated Steel, San Pedro, USA	8/1943	17.9.1943	2.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-25 [EK-25] (ex-PF21 Bayonne)		1013	American SB, Cleveland, USA	1943	11.9.1943	2.1945 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-26 [EK-26] (ex-PF22 Gloucester)		19	Walter Butler, Superior, USA	1943	12.7.1943	12.1943 // 9.1945	to USA 10.1949
ЭК-27 [EK-27] (ex-PF26 Poughkeepsie)		23	Walter Butler, Superior, USA	6.1943	12.8.1943	9.1944 // 9.1945	stricken 2.1950, to USA 10.1950
ЭК-28 [EK-28] (ex-PF27 Newport)		24	Walter Butler, Superior, USA	6.1943	15.8.1943	9.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-29 [EK-29] (ex-PF55 Bath)		12	Froemming, Milwaukee, USA	8/1943	14.11.1943	9.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 11.1949
ЭК-30 [EK-30] (ex-PF70 Evansville)		313	Leatham D. Smith SB, Superior, USA	8/1943	27.11.1943	12.1944 // 9.1945	to USA 1949

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1509
Displacement full, t	2238
Length, m	87.0 wl 92.6 oa
Breadth, m	11.4
Draught, m	3.86
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 768
Endurance, nm(kts)	9500(12)
Armament	3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20/21, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 9 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog MK 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (100)
Electronic equipment	SA, SL radars, QGA sonar
Complement	190

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Project history

Ex-USN frigates of Tacoma class, transferred to USSR on lend-lease without additional re-equipment. Classified as escorts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

EK-3 18.12.1948 ran ashore during a storm at Korsakov (Sakhalin) and later was used as depot and accommodation hulk, she was BU in 1960.