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Patrol Gunboat Association

Crockett (PG 88)
ex-PGM-88

Crockett served both the U. S. Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Asheville Class Gunboat: Laid down as PGM-88 at Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma WA; Commissioned USS Crockett (PG-88), 24 June 1967; Transferred to the Naval Reserve Force, 1 July 1975; Decommissioned, 1 October 1976; Struck from the Naval Register, 15 December 1976; Transferred to the Environmental Protection Agency 14 March 1977. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 240 (lt), 285 (fl) t; Length 164' 6"; Beam 23' 10"; Draft 5' 2" (lt), 9' 5" (fl); Speed 40 kts; Complement 37; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, two twin .50 cal. machine gun mounts; GPCS Mk-63 MOD 29 with AN/SPG-50 Radar; Propulsion two 725hp VT-12 875M Cummins diesels engines, one 1,370shp General Electric model LM 1500 gas turbine engine, two controllable pitch propellers.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Crockett (PG 88)
	144k	.	Paul McGurgan via Patrol Gunboat Association Terry W. McManuels, ETCM(SW), Ret.
	111k	.	-
	54k	c. 1968 Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.	David Meahl
	52k	c. 1968 Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.	David Meahl
	57k	c. 1968 Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.	David Meahl
	105k	U.S. Navy photo from the June 1968 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan
	50k	c. 1969 Dewatering on the Song Cau Lon, Vietnam.	Patrol Gunboat Association
	105k	U.S. Navy photo from the May 1972 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan
	80k	U.S. Navy photo from the July 1974 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan
Research Vessel Crockett
	83k	.	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes