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USS Muskegon (PF-24), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Muskegon. She was laid down 11 May 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by Walter Butler Shipbuilders Inc., Superior, Wis.; launched 25 July 1943; and commissioned 19 February 1944. She took up station on her first patrol 20 November 1944. Serving as plane guard and rescue ship as well as relaying weather data, Muskegon on occasion escorted convoys into Boston, joined in antisubmarine operations and carried ammunition. In May 1945 she took station in midAtlantic to combine weather services with duty as radio and light ship for transatlantic flights, a service which she performed until 15 March 1946. Decommissioned 15 March, she was transferred to the Coast Guard on the same date and was recommissioned as USCG Muskegon (WPF-24). She was sold to the French Navy 26 March 1947. Commissioned in the French Navy on 26 March as Mermoz (F-14) Muskegon served as a weather ship until scrapped in the late 1950’s.

 

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