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Ready (PG-87)
ex-PGM-87

Asheville Class Gunboat: Laid down 10 June 1965 as PGM-87 at Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA ; Redesignated a Patrol Gunboat, PG-87, 1 April 1967; Launched, 12 May 1967; Commissioned USS Ready (PG-87), 6 January 1968; Decommissioned 1 October 1977 and struck from the Navy Register; Transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy as a training vessel. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 240 (lt), 285 (fl) t; Length 164' 6"; Beam 24'; Draft 5' 2" (lt), 9' 6" (fl); Speed 40 kts; Complement 37; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, two twin .50 cal. machine guns, GPCS Mk 63 Mod 29 with AN/SPG-50 Radar; Propulsion, CODOG (Combination Diesel or Gas Turbine) two 12 cyl. 725 hp Cummins diesels engines, General Electric model 7 LM 1500 gas turbine engine, two controllable pitch propellers, 13,300shp. The CODOG system allows for diesel propulsion up to about 12 - 14 knots and marine gas turbine propulsion for speeds in excess of 35 knots.

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Ready/Antelope 129k Souda Bay Crete.
Ready with Antelope (PG 86)		 Capt. David Spiggs USN via
Patrol Gunboat Association
Terry W McManuels ETCM (SW) Ret
Ready 190k U.S. Navy photo Tom Langford
Ready 79k U.S. Navy photo from the March 1968 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Ready 66k c. early 1970s
Mediterranean Sea
Photo taken from the Soviet Riga class frigate Pantera		 Alexey Makovey
Antelope 71k Ready, one of the Navy's new jet-powered gunboats, poses with her twin sister, USS Antelope (PG 86).
U.S.Navy photo from the February 1970 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
PG-86/87/98/100 68k Barcelona, Spain. 6 December 1976. Ready in foreground, inboard with Grand Rapids (PG 98) outboard. Background inboard is Douglas (PG 100) with Antelope inboard. Note that Antelope and Ready are fitted with Mk-87 fire control systems, with antenna inside domes, whereas Grand Rapids and Douglas have a Mk-63 fire control system, with an SPG-50 radar antenna on the gun mounts. Fabio Peņa
Ready 69k 6 December 1976
Barcelona, Spain.		 Fabio Peņa
PG-86/87/98/100 48k 6 December 1976
Barcelona, Spain.		 Fabio Peņa
Antelope 143k Decommissioning program Tom Langford
View the Ready (PG-87)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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USS Ready PG-87
Patrol Gunboat Association
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