High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Burlington originally was authorized as a patrol gunboat with the hull number PG-159, but she was redesignated as a patrol frigate with the hull number PF-51 on 15 April 1943. She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract as Maritime Commission Type T. S2-S2-AQ1 Hull 1462 on 19 October 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Wilmington, California. She was launched on 7 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Florence E. Conrad, acquired from the Maritime Commission by the U.S. Navy on 31 March 1944, and commissioned on 3 April 1944, with a United States Coast Guard crew and with Lieutenant Commander E. B. Carlson, USCG, in command. She was named after the Southeastern Iowa city of Burlington.

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