USS Bangor ( PF - 16 ) USS " Bangor " ( PF - 16 ) was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1946 . Thus far , she has been the only U . S . Navy ship named for Bangor , Maine . She later served in United States Coast Guard as USCGC " Bangor and in the Mexican Navy as ARM " General José María Morelos and ARM " Golfo de Tehuantepec " . Construction and commissioning . " Bangor " was laid down on 20 May 1943 at Lorain , Ohio , by the American Shipbuilding Company under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1482 ) . She was launched on 6 November 1943 , sponsored by Mrs . Ruth R . Hutchins , and delivered to the Navy at New Orleans , Loisiana , on 25 August 1944 . After fitting out at New Orleans , she was commissioned there on 22 November 1944with Lieutenant Commander Fred J . Statts , USCG , in command . Service history . U . S . Navy , 1944 - 1946 . " Bangor " reported for shakedown training off Bermuda on 3 December 1944 and , after four weeks of intensive drills , set a course for the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth , Virginia , for post - shakedown repairs . On 21 January 1945 , " Bangor " joined Task Force ( TF ) 67 on convoy escort duty and , two days later , took station in the antisubmarine screen of a large convoy bound for North Africa . The transatlantic voyage was routine and the ships anchored off Oran , Algeria , on 8 February 1945 . " Bangor " returned to the United States with another convoy . A German U - boat attacked the Allied ships two days out of Oran . " Bangor " joined the other escorts in a coordinated depth charge attack , but without success . " Bangor " made one more round trip transatlantic voyage without incident before undergoing repairs at Bayonne , New Jersey . She resumed her escort duties on 22 April 1945 and joined an Oran - bound convoy out of New York City . " Bangor " anchored at Mers el Kebir , Algeria , on 9 May 1945 and there received the news that Germany had surrendered . She got underway on 17 May 1945 with another returning convoy . " Bangor " completed repairs at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , early in June 1945 and then headed for the Panama Canal Zone , where she arrived on 21 June 1945 . For the next month , she conducted training exercises with submarine s off the Perlas Islands in Panama Bay . In mid - July 1945 , " Bangor " set course for San Pedro , California , to prepare for duty in the Western Pacific in the war against Japan , but the war ended on 15 August 1945 while she was in drydock at Seattle , Washington . Her repairs were completed early in September 1945 . Slated along with her sister ship to be the last two of 30 " Tacoma " - class patrol frigates transferred secretly to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay in the Territory of Alaska as a part of Project Hula , " Bangor " was underway in company with " Annapolis " en route Cold Bay when an order came on 5 September 1945 to suspend all further transfers of ships to the Soviet Union . " Bangor " and " Annapolis " proceeded to Cold Bay anyway , where they took aboard American personnel requiring transportation to the continental United States , then steamed to Seattle to disembark them . " Bangor " and " Annapolis " were the only two patrol frigates scheduled for transfer under Project Hula not to be transferred . U . S . Coast Guard , 1946 . " Bangor " next reported to Bremerton , Washington , to serve as a rescue and weather ship for the United States Coast Guard . On 15 April 1946 , she was decommissioned by the Navy and recommissioned by the Coast Guard as one of 18 patrol frigates used for weather reporting . " Bangor " rotated with other ships on weather stations east of the Hawaiian Islands . Generally remaining at sea for six weeks at a time , she also provided navigational information to any aircraft or surface vessel requiring assistance and assumed search and rescue duties for vessels in distress . As 1946 passed , small seaplane tender s ( AVP ) replaced the patrol frigates . The Coast Guard decommissioned " Bangor " on 16 August 1946 and returned her to the Navy . " Bangor " was then declared excess to the Navys needs , and her name was struck from the Navy list on 23 April 1947 . Mexican Navy , 1947 - 1964 . On 24 November 1947 , the United States sold " Bangor " to Mexico , which renamed her ARM " General José María Morelos for service in the Mexican Navy . Later renamed ARM " Golfo de Tehuantepec , the ship was scrapped in 1964 .