USS Pocatello (PF-9), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Pocatello, Idaho. Pocatello (PF–9), a patrol frigate, originally classified as gunboat with the designation PG-117, was laid down on 17 August 1943 at Kaiser Yard No. 4, in Richmond, California; launched on 17 October 1943, sponsored by Miss Thelma Dixey, a great-granddaughter of Chief Pocatello; manned by a Coast Guard crew; and commissioned at Richmond on 18 February 1944, with Lieutenant Commander S. G. Guill, USCG, in command.
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