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Tacoma (PG-92)
ex-PGM-92


Tacoma served the Navies of the United States and Columbia.
Asheville Class Patrol Gunboat: Laid down 24 July 1967 as Motor Gunboat, PGM-92 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA; Reclassified as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-92; Launched 13 April 1968; Commissioned USS Tacoma (PG-92), 14 July 1969; Decommissioned, 1 May 1983; Struck from the Naval Register, 4 December 1995; Transferred to Columbia as ARC Quitasueno (Sleepless) - (P 112); Decommissioned and transferred to the Columbian Customs Service. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 247 t.; Length 165'; Beam 24'; Speed 37.5 kts.; Complement 24; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, two twin .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, CODOG (Combination Diesel or Gas Turbine) two Cummins VT12-875 diesels engines, GE 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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USS Tacoma (PG 92)
Tacoma 76k - Terry Eccleston, GMCS(SW), USNR
Patrol Gunboat Association
Terry W. McManuels, ETCM(SW), Ret.
Tacoma 116k U.S. Navy photo Tom Langford
Canon 91k Coming up astern of Canon (PG 90).
U.S. Navy photo from the November 1972 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
ARC Quitasueno (P 112)
Tacoma 183k Seen here as Columbian Navy Quitasueno Capitan de Corbeta, Phinio Alberto Garcia Garavito,
Columbian Navy
via Patrol Gunboat Association
Terry W. McManuels, ETCM(SW), Ret.
View the Tacoma (PG 92)
DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center web site
View the Tacoma (PG-92) Unofficial History entry located on the Patrol Gunboat Association Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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