An item reported that the US navy would deliver on the 23rd Japan the last of the frigates (18) and landing craft (50) approved by the Congress. It was the frigate US Bath.(1) The US Navy announced that vice admiral Robert P. Briscoe (2), commander in chief of the American forces in the Far East would handover the frigate to Tokutaro Kimura (3), director-general of the Japanese National Safety Board. The US ambassador in Tokyo John Allison (4) would attend the ceremony.
Notes
1. Laid down at the shipyard of Froemming Brothers Incorporation at Milwaukee on 23 August 1943, launched on 14 November the same while sponsored by Mrs. Fred R.E. Dean, commissioned on 9 September 1944, between 12 July and 9 September of the next year decommissioned and handed over to the Soviet Navy between 13 July and 9 September, served as the EK-11 and given back on 15 November 1949. She was on 13 or 23 December handed over to Japan, became either the Matsu or Maki and finally stricken on 1 December 1961 from the USS naval list, on 28 August 1962 became she definitive Japanese property, decommissioned on 3 March 1966 and became the pier-side training ship YTE-9 and finally sold to be broken up on 13 December 1971 to the Chin Ho Fa Steel and Iron Company Ltd. Of Taiwan.
2. Robert Pearce Briscoe (19 February 1897-14 October 1986), admiral, Second World War veteran, in 1952 Commander Naval Forces Far East and 1956-1959 commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces Southern Europe.
3. Tokutaro Kimura (1886-1982), Minister of State/(first) director of the Japanese Defence Agency 1 July-10 December 1954. Earlier was the minister of Justice between 1949 and 1952.
4. John Moore Allison (7 April 1905-28 October 1978) a diplomat which was among others ambassador in Japan between 1953 and 1957 and later in Indonesia and Czechoslovakia.
