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PG-95 Defiance


Tacoma Class Gunboat; Laid down, 3 October 1967 at Peterson Builders Inc, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS Defiance (PG-95), 24 September 1969; Decommissioned, 11 June 1973 at Izmir, Turkey and transferred to the Turkish Navy; Renamed Yildirim (P 338); Destroyed by an explosion and fire, 11 April 1985 off the Greek island of Mitelene, NE Aegean Sea; Struck from the Naval Register, 6 July 1987.

Specifications: Displacement 250 t.; Length 165'; Beam 24'; Speed 40k; Armament one 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, two twin .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion, diesel, two shafts
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Defiance 41k - Gunboat Riders
Defience 19k - Gunboat Riders

There is no DANFS history available for Defiance (PG-95) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
View the Defiance (PG-95) Unofficial History entry located on the Gunboat Riders Web Site.
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