The first Milledgeville (PF-94), originally classified PG-202, was reclassified PF-94 on 15 April 1943; named Sitka on 11 October 1943; laid down under Maritime Commission contract by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio, on 9 November 1943; renamed Milledgeville on 7 February 1944; launched on 5 April 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Sara Allen Moore; and placed in service at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 November 1944. She steamed to Charleston, South Carolina, on 18 November; was placed out of service on 24 November; and underwent conversion to a weather station ship in the Charleston Navy Yard. Milledgeville was commissioned on 18 January 1945 at Charleston, with Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Hantman, USCG, in command.
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