The second USS Gallup (PF-47), a , was the first ship of the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 to be named for Gallup, New Mexico

Gallup, New Mexico

- Demographics :As of the census of 2000, there were 20,209 people, 6,810 households, and 4,869 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,513.7 people per square mile...

, a small city in the northwest corner of the state.

Gallup was launched on 17 September 1943 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation

Consolidated Steel Corporation

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 shipyard in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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; sponsored by Ensign

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 Helen McMahon, NNRC; and commissioned on 29 February 1944 at San Pedro, California, with Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

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 Clayton M. Opp, USCG, in command.

World War II, 1944-1945

Following conversion work at Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, California

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, and shakedown out of San Pedro and San Diego, she departed San Diego on 1 June 1944 for the Pacific war zone. Conducting anti-submarine patrol en route, she arrived at Nouméa

Nouméa

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, New Caledonia

New Caledonia

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, on 21 June, and continued her escort

Escort destroyer

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 and patrol

Patrol

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 duty in the waters of New Caledonia, New Guinea

New Guinea

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, and Australia

Australia

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 until 12 October with Escort Division 43. On 17 August she bombarded enemy strongholds to support landings on Biak Island at Blue Beach, north of Wardo River by units of the 41st Infantry Division. She continued to fire until the troops had completed their landing and secured the beach. Again, on 25 August, Gallup lent support to the conquest of Biak

Biak

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 by shelling the beaches between Menoerar and Cape Warari as the Army and Navy continued the successful New Guinea offensive.

Departing Hollandia

Jayapura

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 on 12 October 1944, Gallup was part of the screen for the vast task force which returned General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

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 to the Philippines

Philippines

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. On the 17 October she shelled the beach area of Dinagat, and the next day she swept the channel into Leyte Gulf

Leyte Gulf

Leyte Gulf is a body of water immediately east of the island of Leyte in the Philippines, adjoining the Philippine Sea of the Pacific Ocean, at . The Gulf is bounded on the north by the island of Samar, which is separated from Leyte on the west by the narrow San Juanico Strait, and on the south by...

, Philippines, as U.S. forces poised for the invasion. She then began anti-submarine and anti-mine patrol near Black Beach, screening vessels engaged in landing operations. Stationed most of the time off Desolation Point, she collected tide and hydrographic information, served as dispatch boat and as escort through the cleared channel in Leyte Gulf, guided incoming ships and convoy

Convoy

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s through the channel, and served as harbor entrance control vessel during landing operations. She performed these duties, most of the time in gusty, stormy weather, with , LCI(L)-343, and LCI(L)-344, before being sent on an escort mission to Humboldt Bay

Teluk Yos Sudarso

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 on 28 November, touching San Pedro Bay

San Pedro Bay (Philippines)

San Pedro Bay is a bay in the Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf, about 15 km east-west and 20 km north-south. The bay is bounded on the north and east by Samar and on the east by Leyte Island. It is connected by San Juanico Strait to Carigara Bay of the Samar Sea. The...

 and Kossol Roads

Kossol Roads

Kossol Roads, Palau is a large body of reef-enclosed water north of Babeldaob. During World War II, it was used by the United States Navy as the location of a floating resupply and repair base....

, Manus

Manus Island

Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea with an area of 2,100 km², measuring around 100 km × 30 km. According to the 2000 census, Manus Island had a...

, en route. On 3 December she left for the West Coast stopping to drop men at Seeadler Harbor

Seeadler Harbor

Seeadler Harbor, also known as Port Seeadler, is located on Manus Island, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea and played an important role in World War II...

, Admiralty Islands

Admiralty Islands

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, and Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

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. She arrived in San Francisco on Christmas Day 1944.

Departing San Francisco on 9 January 1945, Gallup steamed via Seattle to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where she arrived on the 20 January. She patrolled the North Pacific until she decommissioned at Cold Bay, Alaska on 26 August.

Soviet Navy, 1945–1949

The next day, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

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 under Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease

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, renamed EK-19, and patrolled the Far East

Far East

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. Returned by Russia at Yokosuka, Japan on 14 November 1949, Gallup lay at Yokosuka Naval Yard.

Korean War, 1950–1951

Gallup was recommissioned on 18 October 1950, with Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

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 William W. Boyd, Jr. in command. After shakedown off Sagami Wan, she got under way with Bisbee on 23 November for Hungnam

Hungnam

Hŭngnam was the third largest city in North Korea.It is a port city on the eastern coast, in South Hamgyong Province, on the Sea of Japan . The city covers an area of 250 square kilometers...

, Korea

Korea

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. There she relieved as harbor entrance control vessel, escorting ships when directed, guarding the channel against unfriendly ships, preventing friendly vessels from entering mined areas, and performing search and rescue

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 services to the many refugees flooding through there.

On 19 December, Gallup left for Pusan where she performed anti-submarine patrol on the approaches to the harbor, before leaving on 31 December for Sasebo

Sasebo, Nagasaki

is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of 2011, the city has an estimated population of 259,800 and the density of 609 persons per km². The total area is 426.47 km². The locality is famed for its scenic beauty. The city includes a part of Saikai National Park...

, Japan

Japan

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. On 29 January 1951, she returned to Korea, this time to Kansang and Kosong

Kosong

Kosong is a kun, or county, in Kangwon province, North Korea. It lies in the southeasternmost corner of North Korea, immediately north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Prior to the end of the Korean War in 1953, it made up a single county, together with what is now the South Korean county of the...

, for the purpose of feinting an amphibious assault to divert Communist forces and conducting a pre-assault bombardment on the installation at these points.

Gallup continued to operate out of Sasebo, making screening escort

Escort destroyer

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, patrol

Patrol

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, and guide tours to Pusan, Wonsan, Chonjin, Korea, and Sangley Point and Subic Bay

Subic Bay

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, Philippine Islands. She helped in the bombardment of Wonsan from 23 through 25 February 1951 as U.N.

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 forces seized the harbor islands, and then served as harbor entrance control vessel and flycatcher (anti-small-boat, anti-swimmer, anti-suicide-craft). Returning to Yokosuka on 14 March, she entered dry dock

Dry dock

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 there for extensive hull repairs. She continued similar duty afterward until she returned to Yokosuka on 6 October.

Royal Thai Navy, 1951 onwards

Gallup decommissioned and was transferred under Military Defense Assistance Program to Thailand

Thailand

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 at Yokosuka on 29 October 1951, and served the Royal Thai Navy

Royal Thai Navy

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 as HTMS Prasae (PF 2). The ship was struck from the Thai Navy Register and decommissioned on 22 June 2000, and preserved as a memorial at the Sattahip Naval Base. Towed to the Prasae River and put on display on 27 December 2003 as the "HTMS Prasae Memorial" at the mouth of the Prasae River, Rayong Province

Rayong Province

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 by the Prasae River Communities Committee. Her original three 3"/50 guns were removed by the Royal Thai Navy for spare parts and replaced by obsolete Bofors 75/51 mm guns. The Bofors 40 mm AA guns were also removed, though the Oerlikon 20 mm guns remain.

Awards

Gallup received two battle stars for World War II

World War II

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 service and three battle stars for the Korean War

Korean War

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.