High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gloucester (PF-22), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gloucester, Massachusetts. The second Gloucester (PF-22), originally classified PG-130, was launched on 12 July 1943 at the Walter Butler Shipbuilding Company in Superior, Wisconsin, under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Mrs. Emily K. Ross; acquired and simultaneously commissioned on 10 December 1943. Following shakedown, Gloucester was employed in training frigate crews at Galveston, Texas. On 16 June 1944 she was attached to Escort Division 38, and was later ordered to the Alaskan Sea Frontier for transfer to Russia under lend-lease legislation.

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