USS Grand Rapids (PGM-98)
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| Name: | USS Grand Rapids (PG-98) |
| Builder: | Tacoma Boatbuilding Company |
| Launched: | 4 April 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 5 September 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 October 1977 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Naval Sea Systems Command as R/V Athena II |
| Status: | unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Asheville-class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 245 tons |
| Length: | 164 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 23 ft 11 in |
| Draft: | 5 ft 4 in |
| Speed: | 40 kts |
| Complement: | 24 |
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The second USS Grand Rapids (PGM-98/PG-98) was a Asheville-class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.
On 13 June 1968, the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington laid down Grand Rapids, the eleventh Asheville-class gunboat built by Tacoma. In August 1968, however, the Tacoma shipyard suffered a severe fire that destroyed the under construction Grand Rapids (together with sister ship Benicia). A new Grand Rapids, with the same hull number, was laid down again by Tacoma Boat 20 May 1969, launched on 20 December 1969 and commissioned on 5 September 1970.
Grand Rapids was homeported in San Diego and later Naples, Italy,
Grand Rapids was decommissioned on 1 October 1977 and transferred to the Naval Sea Systems Command where she was renamed Research Vessel Athena II.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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