USS Forsyth ( PF - 102 ) USS " Forsyth " ( PF - 102 ) was a United States Navy in commission from 1945 to 1946 . Construction and commissioning . " Forsyth " originally was authorized as a patrol gunboat with the hull number PG - 210 , but she was redesignated as a patrol frigate with the hull number PF - 102 on 15 April 1943 . She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract as a Maritime Commission Type T . S2 - S2 - AQ1 Hull by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain , Ohio on 6 December 1943 . She was launched on 20 May 1944 , sponsored by Miss Mary Parsons , and was commissioned on 11 February 1945 with a United States Coast Guard crew and with Lieutenant Commander E . M . Osborne , USCGR , in command . U . S . Navy service . World War II , 1945 . After shakedown training in the Caribbean , " Forsyth " steamed north to Naval Station Argentia , Newfoundland , the base for her future operations as a weather ship . She departed Argentia on 2 April 1945 on her first weather patrol , reporting meteorological data , and maintaining readiness to aid any ship or aircraft in distress . On 12 May 1945 , " Forsyth " was called off her weather reporting station to search through haze and fog for the German submarine " U - 234 " , which wanted to surrender in the immediate aftermath of the surrender of Germany at the end of World War II in Europe . On 15 May 1945 , " Forsyth " joined destroyer escort in accepting the surrender of " U - 234 " in the Atlantic Ocean at . " U - 234 " was carrying a German technical mission to Tokyo , Japan , which was still at war with the Allies , where the Germans expected to help the Japanese . Two Japanese officer passengers on board " U - 234 " had previously committed suicide rather than surrender . Later on the day of the capture of " U - 234 " , " Forsyth " s medical officer , joined by the doctor from " U - 234 " , operated on board " Forsyth " on one of " Sutton " s men who had been wounded accidentally while collecting small arm s on board the submarine . " Forsyth " carried the injured sailor into Argentia , arriving there on 18 May 1945 . Despite the prompt treatment of the wound , internal hemorrhaging proved too severe , and the injured sailor died on 25 May 1945 . Postwar . " Forsyth " continued her weather reporting duty in the North Atlantic Ocean for five more months . She then steamed south to Recife , Brazil , where she moored on 1 December 1945 . Until 1 March 1946 , she operated out of Recife on weather station duty . On 8 March 1946 , " Forsyth " departed Recife for Trinidad . At midnight on 14 March 1946 , while at sea , she was decommissioned as a ship of the U . S . Navy U . S . Coast Guard service . Immediately upon decommissioning at sea , " Forsyth " was recommissioned as the United States Coast Guard Cutter USCGC " Forsyth " ( WPF - 102 ) . She steamed from Trinidad to Boston , Massachusetts , arriving there on 23 March 1945 , and made one more North Atlantic patrol on ocean weather station duty . She then proceeded to New Orleans , Louisiana , where the Coast Guard decommissioned her on 2 August 1946 and transferred her back to the U . S . Navy . Disposal . The U . S . Navy transferred " Forsyth " to the Maritime Commission for disposal . The Maritime Commission sold her to the Netherlands in 1947 . Service as Dutch weather ship . In the Netherlands , the ship entered service in 1947 as the civilian weather ship SS " Cumulus " , performing weather - reporting duties for the Dutch government until 1963 . " Cumulus " was scrapped in 1969 .