USS Racine (PF-100)

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USS Racine (PF-100) was a Tacoma-class patrol frigate named after Racine, Wisconsin. It was built by the American Ship Building Company in Cleveland, Ohio. Laid down on 14 September 1943, launched on 15 March 1944, and commissioned on 22 January 1945. The ship was crewed by the Coast Guard.

After shakedown off Bermuda and Guantánamo Bay, Racine escorted the Italian submarine Atropo between those ports. It then sailed from Norfolk on 2 April for Oran, Algeria, with convoy UGS 84 and returned to the United States with convoy GUS 86. Following training in Casco Bay and a New York–based conversion to a weather patrol ship, Racine left on 7 August for the Panama Canal and Pearl Harbor. On 6 September she departed Pearl Harbor for Tacloban, Leyte Gulf, arriving on 23 September to serve as a weather station ship.

Racine departed Samar, Philippines, on 14 April 1946 to return to the United States, arriving in Seattle on 12 May. She was decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington, on 27 June 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 19 July 1946. The ship was sold for scrapping on 2 December 1947 to the Franklin Ship Wrecking Company of Hillside, New Jersey.

Specifications:
- Class & type: Tacoma-class frigate
- Displacement: 1,430 tons light; 2,415 tons full
- Length: 303 ft 11 in; Beam: 37 ft 6 in; Draft: 13 ft 8 in
- Propulsion: 2 × 5,500 shp turbines, 3 boilers, 2 shafts; Speed: 20 knots
- Complement: ~190
- Armament: 3 × 3-inch/50 DP guns; 4 × 40 mm; 9 × 20 mm; 1 × Hedgehog; 8 × Y-gun depth-charge projectors; 2 × depth-charge tracks