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PG-53 Vixen


Built in 1929 at Krupp Germania Werft as the steel-hulled yacht Orion; Purchased from her owner by the US Navy, 13 November 1940; Converted to a Patrol Gunboat by the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Commissioned USS Vixen (PG-53), 25 February 1941; Decommissioned, 24 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946; Transferred to the War Shipping Administration and sold 21 June 1947; Currently in service as the M/V Regina Maris of Memnon Tours, Cairo, Egypt.

Specifications: Displacement 8,097 t; Length 333' 2"; Beam 46' 7"; Draft 16'; Speed 15 kts; Complement 279; Armament four 3" guns , seven .50 cal. machine guns, two .30 cal. machine guns, two dct; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.
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Vixen 52k Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Vixen 49k . Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Vixen 44k c. 1942 .
Vixen 73k Portland, ME. c.1945
Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen
YN3 Mell Nelson, who served on CINCLANTFLT staff under ADM Jonas H. Ingram during World War II.
Regina Maris 44k Regina Maris, ex-Vixen (PG 53), Pireus, Greece, c. 2001 © Alekis Lindström
via Michael Vincent

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