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St. Augustine (PG 54)

St. Augustine sank 5 January 1944
Patrol Gunboat: Built in 1929 as the steel-hulled yacht Viking by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA; Renamed Noparo; Acquired by the Navy 5 December 1940 at New London, CT; Converted at Bethlehem Steel Corp., Boston, MA; Renamed St. Augustine 9 January 1941; Commissioned USS St. Augustine (PG-54), 16 January 1941; Sunk by collision with merchant tanker Camas Meadows 5 January 1944 off Cape May, NJ with heavy loss of life; Struck from the Navy Register 22 January 1944.

Specifications: Displacement 1,720 (fl) t; Length 272' 2"; Beam 36'; Draft 14' 6"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 185; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts; Propulsion Turbo-electric, two shafts.
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St Augustine 39k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941.
National Archives Photo 19-N-24213		 Naval Historical Center
St Augustine 38k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941.
National Archives Photo 19-N-24214		 Naval Historical Center
St Augustine 37k Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 27 May 1941.
National Archives Photo 19-N-24215		 Naval Historical Center
St Augustine 132k Underway off the U.S. East Coast (position 37° 04' N, 74° 45' W), 22 May 1943. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-14, flying out of Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina.
US Navy Photo NH 98190		 Naval Historical Center
St Augustine 161k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
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