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Charleston (PG 51)

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Baker - Dog

Erie Class Gunboat: Laid down 27 October 1934 by the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC, ; Launched 25 February 1936; Commissioned 8 July 1936; Decommissioned 10 May 1946 and transferred to the Maritime Commission; Transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 25 March 1948; Last cruise for the Maritime Academy was in 1957. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 2,000 t; Length 328' 6"; Beam 41' 3"; Draft 14' 10"; Speed 19.6 kts; Complement 236; Armament four 6"/47 gun mounts, four quad 1.1" antiaircraft mounts, six 20mm mounts and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 3-drum express boilers, two 6,200ihp turbines, Parsons single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Charleston (PG 51)
	125k	c. February 1936 Under construction U.S. Navy photo	Robert Hall
	51k	10 October 1936 Preparing for shake down U.S. Navy photo	Robert Hall
	125k	c. 1938 Panama Canal	Darryl Baker
	117k	c. 1943	Joe Radigan
	42k	c. March 1944	.
	60k	4 March 1944	Hyper War U.S. Navy in WWII
	27k	-	-
	40k	-	-
USTS Charleston
	105k	c. 1951 Boston, MA	Massachusetts Maritime Academy
	87k	c. fall 1955 East Boston Shipyard Just before deploying for three months on a training cruise to the Mediterranean in January 1956.	CDR Jack Dowd, USNR, Ret.
	95k	c. fall 1955 Yard period.	CDR Jack Dowd, USNR, Ret.

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

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