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Jamestown (AGP 3)
ex-PG-55

Patrol Gunboat/Motor Torpedo Boat Tender: Built in 1928 as the steel-hulled yacht Savarona at Pusey & Jones Corp., Wilmington DE; Renamed Alder in 1929; Acquired by the Navy 6 December 1940 at New York, NY; Converted to a Patrol Gunboat at the Fletcher Division Shipyard, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hoboken, NJ; Commissioned USS Jamestown (PG-55), 26 May 1941; Reclassified as a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, AGP-3, 13 January 1943; Decommissioned, 6 March 1946 at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 4 September 1946; Sold, 16 December 1946 to Belfour & Gutrie & Co., Ltd. Fate unknown..

Specifications: Displacement 2,250 t.; Length 294'; Beam 38' 2"; Draft 16' ; Speed 15 kts; Complement 259; Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts; Propulsion two 3,000shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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USS Jamestown (PG 55)
Jamestown 43k . Gunter Krebs
USS Jamestown (AGP 3)
Jamestown 26k . .
AGP-3 75k c. 1943
U.S. Navy photo		 Joe Radigan
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