High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Glendale (PF-36), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Glendale, California. Glendale (PF-36) was launched on 28 May 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation shipyard in Los Angeles, California, sponsored by Miss Shirley Schlichtman; and commissioned on 1 October 1943, with Lieutenant Commander Harold J. Doebler, USCG, in command. Following shakedown off Southern California, Glendale sailed from San Diego, California, on 12 January 1944 and reached Cairns, Australia, on 17 February. Until late 1944, she served as an anti-submarine and anti-aircraft escort ship based in New Guinea protecting arriving and departing merchantmen.

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