Эсминец сопровождения «Аллентаун» и его служба в трёх флотах

Tacoma class patrol frigate

USS Allentown (PF 52), a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1945, has thus far been the only U. S. Navy ship to be named for Allentown, Pennsylvania. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK 9 and in the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force as JDS Ume (PF 9), JDS Ume (PF 289) and as YAC 14.

Allentown was laid down on 23 March 1943, at the Froemming Brothers, Inc., shipyard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1477). Launched on 3 July 1943, sponsored by Miss Joyce E. Beary, she was moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she fitted out and was commissioned on 24 March 1944.

Allentown departed New Orleans on 3 April 1944 bound for shakedown training at Bermuda. After about a month of training, she set a course for New York City escorting the Norwegian merchant ship SS Norden. She arrived in New York on 13 May 1944 and underwent post shakedown repairs and alterations. Near the end of June 1944, she stood out of New York in the screen of a convoy. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 June 1944 and entered the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, for additional repairs. She completed repairs in mid August 1944 and returned to New York, where she arrived on 16 August 1944. Soon thereafter, she returned to sea as a unit of Escort Division 33 in the screen of a convoy bound for the Pacific. Steaming via the Panama Canal and Bora Bora in the Society Islands, Allentown reached the northern coast of New Guinea at the end of September 1944. She then began patrol and escort duty in the New Guinea area. At the end of October 1944, she participated briefly in the occupation of the island of Morotai in the Molucca Islands. In mid November 1944, she began escorting convoys between Hollandia, New Guinea, and Leyte in the Philippines in support of the U. S. invasion there. Those duties and convoy escort missions between the various islands of the Philippine archipelago occupied her time until early March 1945. On 9 March, Allentown joined the escort of a Ulithi bound convoy on the first leg of her voyage back to the United States. She arrived at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, on 7 April 1945. After completing an overhaul, Allentown departed Puget Sound on 7 June 1945, bound for Kodiak in the Territory of Alaska. Earmarked for transfer to the Soviet Navy 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, Allentown joined her sister ships Charlottesville, Long Beach, Belfast, Glendale, San Pedro, Coronado, Machias, and Sandusky in getting underway from Kodiak on 13 June 1945 bound for Cold Bay, Alaska, where they arrived on 14 June 1945 to enter Project Hula. Training of Allentowns new Soviet Navy crew soon began at Cold Bay.

Reverting to her former name, Allentown remained at Yokosuka, laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, until 2 April 1953 when she was loaned to Japan. She served the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force as JDS Ume (PF 9) (うめ (PF 9)). Ume was redesignated PF 289 on 1 September 1957. The United States struck her name from the Navy list on 1 December 1961 and transferred her to Japan on a permanent basis on 28 August 1962. Ume was reclassified as an "auxiliary stock craft" and renamed YAC 14 on 31 March 1965. Decommissioned on 31 March 1970, she was returned to U. S. custody on 12 July 1971 and broken up in Taiwan later that year.

The U. S. Navy awarded Allentown two battle stars for her World War II service.