Такома классындағы патрульдік фрегаттар тарихы

Tacoma class patrol frigate

The first USS Ogden (PF 39) was a in commission from 1943 to 1945. Originally classified as PG 147, she was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ogden, Utah. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK 10 and in the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force as Kusu (PF 1), Kusu (PF 281), YAS 50 and YAC 22.

Ogden was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, on 21 May 1943, launched on 23 June 1943, sponsored by Miss Margaret S. Shelton, and commissioned at San Diego, California, on 20 December 1943.

After shakedown out of San Diego, Ogden left San Perdo, California, on 9 March 1944 escorting a convoy via Samoa to Milne Bay, New Guinea, which she reached on 2 April 1944. During this time, she sailed in company with her sister ship Van Buren and escorted the merchant tanker SS Fort Erie to Espiritu Santo from 23 to 29 March 1944. Through July 1944 she took part in the operations leap frogging westward in New Guinea, escorting landing ships and merchant vessels, conducting anti submarine patrols, and serving as harbor entrance control ship at Humboldt Bay. Following repairs and training at Brisbane, Australia, in August and September 1944, Ogden supported the buildup of men and shipping for the forthcoming invasion of the Philippine Islands, twice escorting convoys from Manus in the Admiralty Islands to New Guinea staging bases. She herself arrived at Leyte in the Philippines on 2 November 1944, bringing up a convoy which included a U. S. Navy tanker, an Australian merchant ship, and ten tugs pulling a variety of tows. When Japanese planes attacked her convoy that night, one bomb missed her by only
Ogden returned to New Guinea twice to bring reinforcement convoys to Leyte, and on 12 November 1944 shot down three Japanese kamikaze suicide planes attacking merchant shipping off Leyte. Her gunners scored again off New Guinea on 29 November 1944, assisting in the destruction of two of the torpedo planes which attacked her Leyte bound convoy. Ogden left Humboldt Bay on 14 December 1944, bound for Manus, Bora Bora, the Panama Canal, Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts, where she arrived on 24 January 1945 for repairs, followed by training in Casco Bay, Maine. Ogden got underway from Casco Bay on 28 March 1945 as part of Escort Division 25 – which also included her sister ships Long Beach (the flagship), Belfast, Glendale, San Pedro, and Coronado – bound for Seattle, Washington, via the Panama Canal. The six patrol frigates arrived at Seattle on 26 April 1945. They got underway again for Kodiak in the Territory of Alaska on 7 June 1945, but Ogden had to turn around and return to Seattle for repairs. After repairs, Ogden resumed her voyage and on 27 June 1945 joined her sister ships Long Beach, Belfast, Glendale, San Pedro, Coronado, Charlottesville, Allentown, Machias, and Sandusky at Cold Bay, Alaska, to participate in Project Hula, a secret program for the transfer of U. S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan. Training of Ogdens new Soviet Navy crew soon began at Cold Bay.

Reverting to her original name, Ogden was placed in reserve at Yokosuka until transferred to Japan on 14 January 1953, when she became one of the first ships the United States loaned to Japan under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to serve in the Japanese Safety Security Force as Kusu (PF 1) (くす (PF 1)). She simultaneously was assigned to the 1st Fleet, which was created that day, along with her sister ships Nara (ex Machias), Kashi (ex Pasco), and Momi (ex Poughkeepsie), all similarly lent to Japan. All four ships were assigned to the Yokosuka District Force. On 1 April 1953, the 1st Fleet became part of the newly created 1st Fleet Group. The 1st Fleet later was renamed the 1st Escort Corps. In 1954, the Safety Security Force became the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF). On 1 April 1956, Kusu was transferred to the 11th Escort Flotilla, which the JMSDF formed that day. On 10 May 1957, the 11th Escort Flotilla was abolished and its ships became part of the new 1st Training Corps, under which Kusu participated in the 1st Training Corps's first oceanic training voyage. Kusu was redesignated PF 281 on 1 September 1957

Kusu was transferred to the Yokosuka District Force on 10 December 1963. In 1964 she was converted into a mother ship for drones. The conversion included the removal of her after 3 inch (76.2 mm) gun and reduction of her Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, Y gun depth charge projector, and depth charge track armament and the installation of a drone storage and maintenance hangar. Kusu was reclassified as an "auxiliary service craft" and renamed YAS 50 on 31 March 1970, then reclassified as an "auxiliary storage vessel" and renamed YAC 22 on 31 March 1971. She was decommissioned on 1 April 1976 and returned to U. S. custody on 28 June 1977. She was scrapped in 1977.

The U. S. Navy awarded Ogden three battle stars for her World War II service.