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Welch (PG-93)
ex-PGM-93


Welch served the United State Navy and the Columbian Coast Guard.
Asheville Class Motor Gunboat:

  • Laid down 8 May 1967 as PGM-93 at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
  • 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 and renamed 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 and two twin .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Combined diesel and gas turbime (CODAG), two diesel engines and one General Electric LM1500 gas turbines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    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
    Welch 72k Refueling from Hitchiti (ATF 103)
    U. S. Navy photo from the January 1975 edition of All Hands magazine
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Paul Franklin Woods, USN8 June 1969 - June 1970
    02LT Francis Patrick Grause, USNJune 1970 - 1971
    03LT David William Davis, III, USN1971 - June 1973
    04LT James Robert Tinsley, III, USNJune 1973 - September 1975
    05LT John R. O'Neill, Jr., USNSeptember 1975 - 1977
    06LT William F. Halsey Berthiaume, USN1977 - 10 August 1979
    07LT William Jeffrey Steelman, USN10 August 1979 - 1981
    08LT John Kenneth Condon, USN1981 - 30 September 1981
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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    DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center website
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