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PG-55 /AGP-3 Jamestown


Built in 1928 at Pusey & Jones Corp., Wilmington Del as the steel-hulled yacht Savarona; Renamed Alder, 1929; Purchased from her owner by the US Navy, 6 December 1940 at New York,, NY; Converted to a Gunboat at the Fletcher Division, Shipyard, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hoboken, NJ; Commissioned USS Jamestown (PG-55), 26 May 1941; Redesignated Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, (AGP-3), 13 January 1943; Decommissioned, 6 March 1946 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 4 September 1946; Sold, 16 December 1946 to Belfour & Gutrie & Co., Ltd. Fate unknown..

Specifications: Displacement 1,780t; Length 294'; Beam 38' 2"; Draft 16' ; Speed 15 kts; Complement 259; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.
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Jamestown 43k As PG-55 Gunter Krebs
Jamestown 26k As AGP-3 .
AGP-3 75k As AGP-3. c. 1943
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