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Welch (PG-93)
ex-PGM-93


Welch served the United State Navy and the Columbian Coast Guard.
Asheville Class Gunboat: Laid down 8 May 1967 as PGM-93 at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched 25 July 1968; Commissioned USS Welch (PG-93), 8 September 1969 at Boston, MA; Decommissioned, 20 September 1981 at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, 12 April 1995; Transferred to the Columbian Coast Guard as Albuquerque (P 111). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 247 t.; Length 165'; Beam 24'; Draft 5'; Speed 37.5 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, two twin .50 cal. machine guns; Aluminum hull and frame with fiberglass and balsa wood superstructure; Propulsion Combined diesel and gas turbime (CODAG), two diesel engines and two General Electric LM1500 gas turbines, two shafts.

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Welch 81k At the builders yard. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Welch 68k - Terry Eccleston, GMCS(SW), USNR
Patrol Gunboat Association
Terry W. McManuels, ETCM(SW), USN, Ret.
Welch 80k Little Creek, VA
U. S. Navy photo from the February 1970 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
Welch 102k U. S. Navy photo from the December 1970 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Welch 72k Refueling from Hitchiti (ATF 103)
U. S. Navy photo from the January 1975 edition of All Hands magazine		 Joe Radigan
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