USS Bath (PF-55)

USS Bath (PF-55) was a United States Navy Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945. She served in World War II as a convoy escort in the Pacific Ocean.

Bath was laid down on 19 April 1943 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, Inc., in Richmond, California, and launched on 1 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Walter T. Downs. She was commissioned on 21 March 1944, with Lieutenant Commander Robert S. Haggart, USCG, in command.

Following shakedown, USS Bath was assigned to convoy escort duty in the Pacific. She escorted convoys between the United States West Coast and various locations in the Pacific theater, including Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Eniwetok Atoll; and Saipan in the Mariana Islands. Her duties involved protecting merchant ships and troop transports from enemy submarines and surface raiders.

After the end of World War II, USS Bath was decommissioned on 21 November 1945, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 December 1945. She was sold to the Salco Iron & Metal Company of San Francisco, California, on 20 November 1946, and subsequently scrapped.

The USS Bath earned one battle star for her World War II service.