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{{short description|Tacoma-class patrol frigate}}
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|Ship caption=''Muskogee'' seen in 1944
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1945}}
|Ship name= ''Muskogee''
|Ship namesake=City of [[Muskogee, Oklahoma|Muskogee]], Oklahoma
|Ship reclassified=PF-49, 15 April 1943
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|Ship builder=[[Consolidated Steel Corporation]], [[Wilmington, California|Wilmington]], [[California]]
|Ship yard number=534
|Ship laid down= 18 September 1943
|Ship launched= 18 October 1943
|Ship sponsor= Mrs. S. B. Hudson
|Ship commissioned= 16 March 1944
|Ship decommissioned= 26 August 1945
|Ship honors=1 [[battle star]], [[World War II]]
|Ship fate=Transferred to [[Soviet Navy]], 26 August 1945<ref name="transfer date">The [https://web.archive.org/web/20040601194445/http://history.navy.mil/danfs/m16/muskogee.htm ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' ''Muskogee''] article states that ''Muskogee'' was transferred on 27 August 1945 and [http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/08049.htm NavSource Online: Frigate Photo Archive Muskogee (PF 49) ex-PG-157] and [http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/patrol/pf49.htm hazegray.org ''Muskogee''] repeat this. However, Russell, Richard A., ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', Washington, D.C.: [[Naval Historical Center]], 1997, {{ISBN|0-945274-35-1}}, p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [[Cold War]], reports that the transfer date was 26 August 1945. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, ''Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels'' Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., ''Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik'' ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.</ref>
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|Ship acquired=Returned by Soviet Navy, 1 November 1949
|Ship fate=Transferred to [[Republic of Korea Navy]], 23 October 1950
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|Ship struck= 15 September 1972
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|Ship country=Soviet Union
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval-1935}}
|Ship name=''EK-19''
|Ship acquired= 26 August 1945<ref name="transfer date"/>
|Ship commissioned= 26 August 1945<ref name="Soviet commissioning date">According to Russell, Richard A., ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', Washington, D.C.: [[Naval Historical Center]], 1997, {{ISBN|0-945274-35-1}}, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [[Cold War]], Project Hula ships were commissioned into the Soviet Navy simultaneously with their transfer from the U.S. Navy; see photo captions on p. 24 regarding the transfers of various [[large infantry landing craft]] (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of {{USS|Coronado|PF-38}}, which Russell says typified the transfer process. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, ''Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels'' Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., ''Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik'' ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.</ref>
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|Ship fate=Returned to United States, 1 November 1949
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|Ship country=South Korea
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|South Korea|naval}}
|Ship name= ''Duman''
|Ship acquired= 23 October 1950
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Tacoma|frigate|1}}
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|Ship complement=190
|Ship armament=*3 × [[3"/50 caliber gun|3"/50 dual purpose]] guns (3x1)
*4 x [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40&nbsp;mm gun]]s (2×2)
*9 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20&nbsp;mm gun]]s (9×1)
*1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] [[anti-submarine mortar]]
*8 × [[Y-gun]] depth charge projectors
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'''USS ''Muskogee'' (PF-49)''', a {{sclass|Tacoma|frigate}} in commission from 1944 to 1945, thus far has been the only ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named for [[Muskogee, Oklahoma]]. She later served in the [[Soviet Navy]] as '''''EK-19''''' and in the [[Republic of Korea Navy]] as '''ROKS ''Dumon'' (PF-61)'''.

==Construction and commissioning==
Originally classified as a patrol [[gunboat]], '''PG-157''', ''Muskogee'' was reclassified as a [[patrol frigate]], PF-49, on 15 April 1943. She was [[Keel laying|laid down]] on 18 September 1943, by [[Consolidated Steel Corporation]] at [[Wilmington, California|Wilmington]], [[California]], [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 18 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. S. B. Hudson, wife of the mayor of Muskogee, and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 16 March 1944.

==Service history==

===US Navy, World War II, 1944-1945===
After training and exercises off the California coast, ''Muskogee'', manned by a [[United States Coast Guard]] crew, departed [[San Pedro, California|San Pedro]], California, on 18 June 1944, for [[Nouméa]], [[New Caledonia]], where she arrived on 18 July 1944, for patrol and escort duty from Nouméa and, after its capture, [[Yos Sudarso Bay|Humboldt Bay]], [[New Guinea]]. [[Anti-submarine]] patrol and screening for ships operating around New Guinea were her primary duties into October 1944.

On 18 October 1944 she got underway screening the second reinforcement group bound for [[Battle of Leyte|newly invaded]] [[Leyte Island|Leyte]] in the [[Philippine Islands]], arriving in [[San Pedro Bay (Philippines)|San Pedro Bay]] on 24 October to screen [[Transport (ship)|transports]] and supply ships under numerous [[Japan]]ese air attacks while waiting for a group of empty [[Landing Ship, Tank|tank landing ship]]s to form up for the return passage. As her convoy retired on 26 October 1944, Japanese aircraft again attacked it, and ''Muskogee'' joined in downing several enemy aircraft. A second escort voyage to Leyte in early November 1944 was less eventful.

Concluding her New Guinea patrols, ''Muskogee'' arrived in [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Territory of Hawaii]], on 15 December 1944, then reported at [[Dutch Harbor, Alaska|Dutch Harbor]], [[Territory of Alaska]], on 12 January 1945 for similar duty in the [[Aleutian Islands]]. Selected for transfer to the [[Soviet Navy]] in [[Project Hula]] &ndash; a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at [[Cold Bay, Alaska|Cold Bay]], Alaska, in anticipation of the [[Soviet Union]] joining the [[Pacific War|war against Japan]] &ndash; ''Muskogee'' departed [[Adak, Alaska|Adak]] on 6 July 1945 bound for [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]]. After undergoing repairs and conversion at Seattle in preparation for her transfer, ''Muskogee'' steamed to Cold Bay, where she soon began training her new Soviet crew.<ref name="Russell p. 39">Russell, Richard A., ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', Washington, D.C.: [[Naval Historical Center]], 1997, {{ISBN|0-945274-35-1}}, p. 39.</ref>

===Soviet Navy, 1945–1949===

Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, ''Muskogee'' was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] on 26 August 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under [[Lend-Lease]] immediately<ref name="transfer date"/> along with her [[sister ship]]s {{USS|Bisbee|PF-46}}, {{USS|Gallup|PF-47}}, {{USS|Rockford|PF-48}}, {{USS|Carson City|PF-50}}, and {{USS|Burlington|PF-51}}. Commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,<ref name="Soviet commissioning date"/> ''Muskogee'' was designated as a ''storozhevoi korabl'' ("escort ship") and renamed '''''EK-19''''' in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound for [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky]] in the Soviet Union, where she served as a patrol vessel in the [[Soviet Far East]].<ref name="Russell p. 39"/>

In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II. On 8 May 1947, [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] [[James V. Forrestal]] informed the [[United States Department of State]] that the [[United States Department of the Navy]] wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned, ''EK-19'' among them. Negotiations for the return of the ships were protracted, but on 1 November 1949 the Soviet Union finally returned ''EK-19'' to the U.S. Navy at [[United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|Yokosuka]], [[Japan]].<ref>Russell, Richard A., ''Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan'', Washington, D.C.: [[Naval Historical Center]], 1997, {{ISBN|0-945274-35-1}}, pp. 37–38, 39.</ref>

===Republic of Korea Navy, 1950- ? ===
Reverting to her original name, ''Muskogee'' lay idle in the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]] at Yokosuka until the United States loaned her to the [[Republic of Korea]] on 23 October 1950. Commissioned into the [[Republic of Korea Navy]] as '''ROKS ''Dumon'' (PF-61)''', she saw service in the [[Korean War]]. The U.S. Navy struck the ship from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 15 September 1972 and the United States transferred her outright to [[South Korea]] under the [[Security Assistance Program]] on 1 October 1973. Her final disposition is unknown.

==Awards==
The US Navy awarded ''Muskogee'' one [[battle star]] for her World War II service.

== References ==
*{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/m/muskogee.html}}
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== External links ==
* {{navsource|12/08049|USS Muskogee}}
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/patrol/pf49.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Muskogee'']

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