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Vixen (PG-53)

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Roger - William

Patrol Gunboat: Built in 1929 as the steel-hulled yacht Orion at Krupp Germania Werft, Kiel, Germany; Acquired by the Navy 13 November 1940; Converted to a Patrol Gunboat by the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Commissioned USS Vixen (PG-53), 25 February 1941 at Brooklyn, NY; Decommissioned, 24 May 1946; Struck from the Navy Register, 3 July 1946; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 21 June 1947 and sold; Currently in service as the M/V Regina Maris with Memnon Tours of Cairo, Egypt.

Specifications: Displacement 3,774 t; Length 333' 2"; Beam 46' 5"; Draft 16' 11"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 279; Armament four 3"/50 dual purpose mounts, seven .50 cal. machine guns, two .30 cal. machine guns, two dct; Propulsion two 3,600bhp Krupp diesel engines, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Vixen (PG 53)
	52k	Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen	Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
	49k	.	Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
	44k	c. 1942	.
	83k	c. 1943	U.S. Navy photo
	72k	11 April 1944	Robert Hurst
	73k	c. 1945 Portland, ME Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen	YN3 Mell Nelson, who served on CINCLANTFLT staff under ADM Jonas H. Ingram during World War II.
M/V Regina Maris
	44k	c. 2001 Pireus, Greece	© Alekis Lindström via Michael Vincent

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