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![]() USS Gallup (PG-85) in June 1967
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Class overview | |
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Name | Asheville class |
Preceded by | PGM-39 class |
Succeeded by | PSMM Mk5 multi-purpose patrol boat (PSMM) |
Built | 1966–1971 |
Completed | 17 |
Lost | 1 |
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Type | PGM motor gunboat |
Displacement | 240 long tons (244 t) |
Length | 164 ft 6 in (50.1 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) |
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Range | 1,700 nmi (3,100 km) |
Complement | 24 crew (4 officers) |
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The Asheville-class gunboats were a class of small warships built for the United States Navy in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The class is named for a city in western North Carolina and the seat of Buncombe County. All Asheville-class gunboats have since been donated to museums, scheduled for scrapping, or transferred to the Greek, Turkish, Colombian and South Korean Navies. The last two Asheville-class gunboats in US service were USS Chehalis and USS Grand Rapids, which were operated by the Naval Surface Warfare Center until they were stricken in 2016.[1][2][3]