USS Orlando ( PF - 99 ) USS " Orlando " ( PF - 99 ) , a " Tacoma " - class frigate , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Orlando , Florida . She was authorized with the hull classification symbol PG - 207 but reclassified PF - 99 in April 1943 . Her keel was laid down 2 August 1943 under a Maritime Commission Contract by American Ship Building Company , in Cleveland , Ohio . She was launched on 1 December 1943 sponsored by Mrs . E . Harold Johnson , and commissioned on 15 November 1944 with Lieutenant Commander James A . Hyslop , USCG , in command . After " Orlando " made a shakedown cruise to Bermuda , her first convoy departed from Hampton Roads on 7 February 1945 . " Orlando " rounded up the stragglers from her position in the rear of the 37 - ship convoy bound for Mers el Kebir , Algeria , North Africa . The convoy passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on 22 February and arrived at Mers el Kebir two days later . On 3 March escort duty commenced again as a 43 - ship convoy started on its way across the Atlantic Ocean . By 15 March various units of the convoy began to detach themselves from the main body of ships and " Orlando " departed the convoy to proceed to Boston , Massachusetts . After training exercises " Orlando " commenced her second trans - Atlantic voyage to Mers el Kebir as convoy screen . The ship remained at Mers el Kebir until joining a convoy bound for the United States on 2 May . With the crossing completed , the convoy commenced to break up on 14 May and " Orlando " returned to New York City with a section of the convoy before proceeding to Boston for voyage repairs . On 5 July " Orlando " departed for New York to be converted to a weather ship and prepare for distant service . The frigate got underway from New York Harbor 10 August bound for the Panama Canal . On the way the successful conclusion of the war against Japan was announced . The ship transited the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 5 September 1945 . Five days later " Orlando " and " Gulfport " stood out of the channel at Pearl Harbor and set course for Adak in the Andreanof Islands to moor in Sweepers Cove , Adak on 16 September . The ship took a weather station in the area around 43 degrees North , 165 degrees East from 7 October until 25 October . Through the month of November the ship was moored in Finger Bay , Adak . The lonely weather station duty continued as " Orlando " remained in the area around Adak until arriving at Seattle , Washington , on 12 May 1946 . The naval career of the frigate " Orlando " ended at Seattle where she was placed out of commission 27 June 1946 , was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 July 1946 , and was sold for scrapping 10 November 1947 to the Zidell Ship Dismantling Company . " Cinderella Liberty " . In the 1973 film " Cinderella Liberty " , James Caan portrayed a sailor assigned to the USS " Orlando " and wore the ship ' s name on his right shoulder rocker . " Down Periscope " . The 1996 comedy " Down Periscope " includes a fictitious " Los Angeles " - class submarine " Orlando " ( SSN - 852 ) . ( Which flight cannot be determined ; when submerged , she has the sail planes of an early model " LA " boat , but when surfaced , she has the bow planes of a 688i . ) No submarine of the United States Navy has ever been named " Orlando " and , hull classification symbol SSN - 852 has not yet been assigned .