The USS Milledgeville (PF-94) was a Tacoma-class frigate constructed for the United States Navy during World War II. Originally designated PG-202, she was reclassified as PF-94 on 15 April 1943 and was initially named Sitka before being renamed Milledgeville on 7 February 1944. Built by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, she was laid down on 9 November 1943 and launched on 5 April 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Sara Allen Moore. The vessel was placed in service at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 November 1944, but shortly afterward was transferred to Charleston, South Carolina, where she underwent conversion into a weather station ship at the Charleston Navy Yard. Commissioned on 18 January 1945, USS Milledgeville conducted shakedown training off Bermuda before being assigned to Task Force 24. Her primary mission was meteorological observation and air-sea rescue patrols in the North Atlantic. Between 3 and 5 April 1945, she sailed to Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, and began her first weather patrol on 7 April, operating on Weather Station No. 1 until 26 April. Over the next several months, she completed five North Atlantic patrols, supporting weather data collection critical for wartime operations, and underwent overhaul in Boston in September. In late 1945, she extended her patrols to the South Atlantic, departing Boston on 16 November and traveling via Trinidad to Recife, Brazil. She conducted patrols off Brazil’s Weather Station No. 12 before returning to North Atlantic duty, operating out of Argentia and Boston through early 1946. USS Milledgeville was decommissioned on 21 August 1946 at Boston and sold for scrap to Southern Scrap Material Company of New Orleans on 9 April 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 23 April 1947, and she was scrapped starting on 25 March 1948. Her service as a weather station ship contributed to meteorological intelligence efforts during the closing months of World War II.

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