High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Evansville (PF-70), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Evansville, Indiana. Evansville (PF-70) was launched on 27 November 1943 by Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, sponsored by Mrs. Don Davis, daughter of the Mayor of Evansville, Indiana; and commissioned on 4 December 1944, with Lieutenant Commander G. T. Applegate, USCG, in command. Evansville sailed down the Mississippi River and after calling at Mobile, Alabama, reached Charleston, South Carolina, on 31 December. Through the next six months, she had escort duty along the east coast and to Bermuda, patrolled off New York, and served briefly as a weather station ship. She departed New York City on 9 July 1945 bound for San Diego, California, Seattle, Washington, and Cold Bay, Alaska.

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