USS Tacoma (PGM-92)
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USS Tacoma (PGM-92)
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 United States
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| Name: | Tacoma |
| Namesake: | City of Tacoma, Washington |
| Laid down: | 24 July 1967 |
| Launched: | 13 April 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 14 July 1969 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1981 |
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| Motto: | Fearless to challenge all valor |
| Honors and awards: |
2 Battle Stars |
| Fate: | Leased to the Colombian National Armada as Quita Sueño, 16 May 1983; sold to Colombia on 20 September 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 247 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 165 ft (50 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught: | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
| Draft: | 12 feet |
| Propulsion: | CODOG (Combined Diesel and Gas turbine |
| Speed: | 37.5 knots |
| Complement: | 24 |
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USS Tacoma (PG-92) was an Asheville-class gunboat of the U.S. Navy and the fourth ship to be named after the city of Tacoma, Washington. Tacoma was the first in a series of revised Asheville-class gunboats. Some sources call these revised boats Tacoma- or PG-92-class, but the U.S. Navy officially designates them as Asheville-class. The keel of Tacoma was laid 24 July 1967 at the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., in her namesake city. She was launched on 13 April 1968, sponsored by Mrs. Arne K. Strom, and was commissioned on 14 July 1969, with Lt. Frank H. Thomas, Jr., in command.
Originally fitted with a 40mm cannon aft, Tacoma was re-fitted with a 20mm for training. In addition to the dual mounts for .50 caliber machine guns on the O-1 level, there were mounts for twin M-60 machine guns on the O-2 level. Either could be replaced with the Mk 19 grenade launcher.
The Tacoma was powered by a combination of two Cummins Diesel engines and a General Electric LM-1500 Gas Turbine. Pneumatic actuators allowed the power source to be switched between the two sources. The Controllable Reversible Pitch (CRP) propellers allowed the ship to stop in as little as 2 ship lengths from top speed. Top speed on the gas turbine was in excess of 42 knots.
During late 1969, Tacoma conducted shakedown training and independent ship exercises along the California coast. While so engaged on 16 October, she joined in a search and rescue mission and recovered a sailor who had fallen overboard from USS Neches the previous night. At the completion of refresher training, she participated in amphibious exercise PHIBELEX/BLT 4-69, off Camp Pendleton, Calif., in early December. In January 1970, she entered Long Beach Naval Shipyard for post-shakedown availability. Tacoma returned to San Diego on 20 May and began preparations for deployment to the western Pacific. On 1 August, after two months of operations out of San Diego, she got underway for the Mariana Islands. Following a week-long stopover in Pearl Harbor, the gunboat arrived in her new home port, Apra, Guam, on 28 August.
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