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	Asheville
		Asheville "showed the flag" briefly at Bluefields; and, since the government had suppressed the revolution, the gunboat sailed for Port Limon, Costa Rica, where she visited briefly before steaming to her new base at Cristobal, Canal Zone, which she reached on 8 September.
		Asheville remained at Foochow until 5 December, when she sailed for Tsingtao, to be present during the transfer of the former German-leased territory of Kiaochow from Japanese authority to Chinese under the 1922 Japanese-Chinese Shantung Agreement.
		Asheville was presumed lost, and her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 May 1942, but not until after World War II did the story of her last battle emerge, from a former crewman of heavy cruiser Houston (CA-30), who had met, in prison camp, Fireman 1st Class Fred L. Brown.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a12/asheville-i.htm (2888 words)

	Anchors aweigh / Mountain Xpress / mountainx.com
		Asheville is justly renowned as a jewel of the Southern Appalachians, but less well known is the city's strangely rich naval heritage.
		The first, a patrol gunboat launched on July 4, 1918, was sunk by the Japanese destroyers Arashi and Nowaki in the Java Sea in 1942, killing all but one sailor aboard (who later died in a prisoner-of-war camp).
		The Asheville center drills highly trained hospital-battalion reservists as well as a construction battalion of Seabees, several of whom recently returned from duty in Iraq.
	www.mountainx.com /news/2005/1221navalcenter.php (1421 words)

	PG 84 Asheville
		Athena is a converted PG-84 Asheville-class patrol gunboat.
		Built for the U.S. Navy in 1969 at Tacoma Boat as USS Chehalis (PG-94), she was converted to a high-speed research vessel in 1976.
		Since Athena was built as a high-speed patrol gunboat, she was engineered to be as lightweight as possible and constructed under high standards of quality assurance.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/pg-84.htm (447 words)

	The ASHEVILLE CLASS Patrol Gunboat (PG)
		The largest of the Navy's coastal patrol craft, the patrol gunboat was conceived in the early 1960's in response to the volatile Cuban Missile Crisis, intended primarily for coastal patrol and blockade operations as well providing task force protection against possible patrol boat missile threat.
		Because of their high speed and maneuverability, the gunboats were valuable in support of inshore raiding and reconnaissance operations.
		The Asheville Class Patrol Gunboats remained in commission throughout the Viet Nam War, participating in numerous coastal and riverine operations.
	www.gunboatriders.com /theboats/general_spec.html (904 words)

	Asheville Nc Lodging
		Asheville School is a small, private boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina.
		Asheville School allows both boarding and day students, and hosts its boarders in three dormitories, segregated by gender on each hall.
		Asheville School has now begun to move forward into a new era of education by initiating several projects ranging from a new athletic facility, a planned science and art building, and eventually a restoration and modernization of the dorms.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/6/asheville-nc-lodging.html (358 words)

	PGH-1 Flagstaff
		Upon her return to the U.S. in 1970, she was assigned to the Amphibious Forces of the Pacific Fleet where she participated in numerous readiness trials and training exercises and was also used as a test-bed for various craft subsystems, for the Navy's Advanced Hydrofoil Development Program.
		But hydrofoil gunboats Flagstaff (PGH 1) and Tucumcari (PGH 2), assigned to Task Force 115 later in the war, proved not as satisfactory in operation.
		These revolutionary vessels were unsuited to patrols in the rough seas off Vietnam and were too mechanically complex for the repair facilities in the combat theater.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/pgh-1.htm (1057 words)

	Park Inn Asheville at Park inn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Just off Charlotte Street north of downtown Asheville The Grove Park Inn built by Edwin Wiley Grove is an earnest attempt to erect an honest building with no substitution of contemporary popular design for classic construction The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa is one of the South's most venerable and famous grand resorts.
		Private Concert @ Grove Park Inn Asheville NC The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa is one of the South's most venerable and famous grand resorts.
		Asheville Citizen-Times - Ingles in Skyland on Hendersonville Road from noon to 7 p.m.; Park Ridge WOW Van and Blue Ridge Community Health.
	www.longtime2.info /park-inn/park-inn-asheville.php (1132 words)

	Rachel Louise Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 152-foot long, aluminum-hulled vessel started as an Asheville Class gunboat in the Vietnam War.
		Although notorious among their crews for poor design and mechanical snafus, the big turbine engines moved the Asheville boats so fast that they could throw a fantail as high as the vertical stabilizer of a Boeing 747.
		After returning to the United States and being decommissioned, the gunboat was turned over to the Environmental Protection Agency.
	www.serve.com /rcsc/carson.htm (395 words)

	USS Asheville Departs on WESTPAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Easton, Jr., USS Port Royal is a "Ticonderoga" class guided missile cruiser and will be a part of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Carrier Battle Group on deployment to the western Pacific and Arabian Gulf.
		USS Port Royal is the second U.S. Navy warship named to commemorate battles of the American Revolution and the Civil War in the waters of Port Royal Sound and on the adjacent South Carolina sea islands.
		USS Asheville is the Navy’s 47th Los Angeles Class submarine and is capable of carrying the most advanced weapons available to the submarine force.
	www.csp.navy.mil /news/758dep.htm (407 words)

	USS-KAWISHIWI AO-146 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This worked out very well for refueling and it allowed the patrol gunboat crew to come aboard and use the ship's store, post office, barbershop and soda fountain.
		On 5 September 1969, MARATHON was awarded the Green "E" and "C" for efficiency in operations and communications.
		Asheville Class Gunboat; Laid down, 21 June 1966 at Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma WA as (PGM-89); Reclassified Patrol Gunboat (PG), 28 March 1967;
	www.usskawishiwi.org /Alongside/USS-Marathon.html (133 words)

	The Flagship
		In January 1976 he was assigned to Naval Communication Station in Sidi Yahia, Morocco., where he met Barbara, his future wife.
		Harrington’s first shipboard duty assignment began in April 1977 when he reported to the Asheville-class patrol gunboat Welch at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek.
		Harrington’s wife Barbara who joined the Navy in 1974 but decided to leave the service in 1981 as a personnelman first class to work the home front.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2003/may222003_16.shtml (599 words)

	HELLENIC NAVY - Gunboats Class Asheville
		The representation symbolizes the struggle, in favour of faith and homeland, of the ships crews that took part in the liberational war of 1821 against the Otoman Empire.
		Gunboat ΤΟLMI was constructed in the USA (Peterson, Wisconsin), belongs to the ASHEVILLE gunboats Class and she was commissioned to the United States Navy (U.S.N.) on the 5th of December 1969 with the name USS GREEN BAY (PG-101).
		She participated in the amphibious force of the fleet of Atlantic until 1975, when she was placed out of commission.
	www.hellenicnavy.gr /tolmi_p229_en.asp (231 words)

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		CA25 USS Salt Lake City (Pensacola class 1944)
		PF51 USS Burlington (Tacoma class patrol frigate 1944)
		YT146 USS Hoga (Woban class yard tug 1941)
	www.oldmodelkits.com /page1.html (174 words)

	"By Sea, Air, and Land" Chapter 3
		However, the number depended on the size and class of the carriers, which varied from the large-deck 65,000-ton Forrestal-class ships to the 27,000-ton, World War II Essex-class ships.
		The minesweepers in Squadron 17 were responsible for sea patrol, inshore patrol, river patrol, and minesweeping duties, respectively.
		Normally, only 50 percent of the escorts and motor gunboats were available for ocean patrol, and this effort constituted a minor part of the total Market Time campaign.
	www.history.navy.mil /seairland/chap3.htm (19569 words)

	Information Sheet on the OSV Anderson (originally commissioned the USS Antelope – PG-86) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was the third ship of the Asheville Class of Patrol Gunboats.
		Antelope was one of two Patrol Gunboats fitted with the MK-87 Fire Control System, a highly sophisticated, track-while-scan, digital fire control radar which controlled both the 3 inch gun mount and, later, the RIM-66B STANDARD surface-to-surface missile system.
		Antelope departed Little Creek in company with USS Graham County (AGP-1176), a bow-door LST which had recently been converted to serve as a Patrol Gunboat tender and support ship.
	gsaauctions.gov /attachment/41FBPI05266001.HTM (533 words)

	CRD21
		As the Navy's coastal patrol and interdiction resources grew, gas turbine-powered gunboats (PG’s) and later hydrofoils [USS FLAGSTAFF (PGH-1) and USS TUCUMCARI (PGH-2)] from BSU-1 joined the effort.
		This was a problem because we had a lot of senior 1st Class Petty Officers.
		A nice shot of USS ASHEVILLE (PG-84) tied up to the pier at Great Lakes on a late Spring day in 1975.
	www.ptfnasty.com /CRD21.htm (7277 words)

	Special Forces Search Engine : US Navy SEALS/Mobile Riverine Forces - Powered By The FOGs at The Swamp Team House
		Rate It For those visitors that know little or nothing about the US Navy Patrol Gunboat of the Vietnam War era, we of the PGRA welcome you to our website.
		Through these pages we of the US Navy Patrol Gunboat Reunion Association wish to promote an annual reunion for "gunboat riders" -- those sailors that served onboard the ASHEVILLE Class Patrol Gunboats (PG) of the United States Navy during the 1960's and 1970's.
		At the same time, we hope you learn something of the way of life for the sailors of the gunboats.
	www.sfahq.com /US_Navy_SEALS/Mobile_Riverine_Forces (638 words)

	Asheville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Typically they would remain on-station for 7 or 14 days, with 3 day respites.
		Their shallow draft made them especially useful in the rivers and coastal waters of Vietnam, where they were used extensively for coastal blockade and river gunboat duties.
		USS Asheville is a 1:350 scale resin and etched brass kit.
	www.steelnavy.com /Asheville.htm (167 words)

	U.S.S. Green Bay (PG-101) Commissioning: Museum?
		The USS Green Bay is a Vietnam War-era Navy gunboat which was designed for river patrols.
		Powered by a jet turbine used in F-4 Phantom airplanes, it was one of the fastest ships in the U.S. Navy.
		It was the last of 17 Asheville Class patrol gunboats produced for the U.S. Navy, five of which were built in Sturgeon Bay.
	ussgreenbay.mactom.com /GBMuseum.html (791 words)

	Floating Drydock Models
		This one piece, diamond plate is for the IOWA CLASS BB, 1/192 scale.
		Iowa class bow rails are included and can be cut down to fit other battleships.
		Included are two and three bar, bow rails, depth charge racks, splinter shields, MK-37 gun directors SC and SC-2 radars, K-guns, 20mm guns and shields, prop guards, ladders and inclined ladders, crewmen, boat davits and bracing.
	www.floatingdrydock.com /model.htm (3503 words)

	ModelWarships In the box review of Revell’s 1:72
		Asheville Class PG U.S.S. Built at Peterson Builders Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.
		As well the 7,62 turret on Asheville class gunboats has a Plexiglas dome for the gunners head.
		Instead of supplying clear parts along with the kit, a plump bulb is set on top of the turret.
	modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/misc/pc/defiance-131-gh/defiance.html (656 words)

	Photos of the PG Gunboat Operations on the Song Cau Long River in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
		He is the Patrol Gunboat (ASHEVILLE PG84 Class) Association Historian.
		Also look at Gunboats of the Song Bo De The USS Crocket PG-88 is shown here on the Song Cua Lon River near Seafloat.
		USS ASHEVILLE (PG-84) while exiting the Cua Lon was ambushed with small arms fire and 7 rockets, 2 of which hit.
	brownwater-navy.com /vietnam/SeafltPG.htm (1396 words)

	COMBATSIM.COM: Daily News
		The laboratory will also be used to develop and demonstrate the information infrastructures for programmes such as the Navy's new aircraft carrier, CVN 77, and her Nimitz class sisters; and the DD-(X) family of surface combatants.
		After RCS testing, the LMS structure was installed on an Ex-Asheville class patrol gunboat for additional testing at-sea near Panama City in Florida.
		The additional tests included at-sea signature measurements of the LMS and tests of the communication capabilities of the antenna systems embedded within the LMS structure.
	www.combatsim.com /cnews/arch/cnews-arc162.htm (2529 words)

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		Doesn't have to be collector grade, I intend to build it...
		Subject: The Kelly Class Destroyers Hi All A quick update of the progress on my book.
		I have just received the draft layout proofs which are very nice.
	smmlonline.com /archives/VOL1424.txt (798 words)

	Associations
		APD Veterans APD-1 to APD-36 'The Green Dragons'
		Asheville Class Patrol Gunboats Tenders & Staff, (SEE Patrol Gunboat Assn)
		Coastal River Div 1 & 2 (SEE Patrol Gunboat)
	www.military-network.com /ben/Associations.cfm?category=usn_misc (173 words)

	Iron Shipwright
		USS Nashville CL 43 Brooklyn class light cruiser (1944)
		Flower Class Corvette 1940/41 Canadian long forecastle Flower
		USS Salem CA-139 Des Moines class heavy cruiser
	www.commanderseries.com /ships.htm (195 words)

	Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		1/350 Cannon Class USS Thomas DE-132 by Phil Kirchmeier (Iron Shipwright)
		1/350 Evarts Class USS Cabana DE-260 by Michael Taylor (Iron Shipwright)
		1/700 Tarawa Class carrier USS Nassau and DDG Arleigh Burke by Michael Taylor (DML and Skywave)
	www.steelnavy.com /images/gallery.htm (1792 words)

	US NAVY
		These notice boards are subsidized by a annual gift from Cranston Fine Arts the naval print company.
		A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.
		USS Defiance, Asheville Class Fast Attack Craft, launched 24th September 1969.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /us.htm (1101 words)

	World-Wide Naval Order of Battle
		For example, a book might have a Truxtun class cruiser named Prescott, which is not a real world ship, but because it was given a class I used it.
		I often had multiple names of ships of different classes, such as several vessels named Minsk, one a cruiser, one a carrier, one a sub, one a freighter.
		Where a class is exclusive to one navy, I used shorthand.
	www.geocities.com /nmdecke/NavalOOB.html (6939 words)

	Photos of the PG Gunboat Operations on the Song Cau Long River in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
		The USS Crocket PG-88 is shown here on the Song Cua Lon River near Seafloat.
		Zumwalt and son reference SeaFloat in their book but no pictures.
		USS ANTELOPE (PG-86) 30 Jan - 15 Feb 1970 28 Feb - 11 Mar 1970* 4 Apr - 17 Apr 1970* 25 Apr - 11 May 1970* 14 Jun - 2 Jul 1970 USS CROCKETT (PG-88) 1969 & 1970 Histories missing; following taken from Family Grams, which don't go beyond Sep 1969.
	brownwater-navy.com /vietnam/SongBoDe.htm (947 words)

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