USS Crockett (PG-88)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Crockett and RV Rachel Carson.

History
United States
NameUSS Crockett (PG-88)
NamesakeCrockett, California
BuilderTacoma Boatbuilding Company
Launched4 June 1966
Commissioned24 June 1967
Decommissioned1 October 1976
Stricken15 December 1976
FateTransferred to EPA, 1977, Scrapped c. 1986
General characteristics
Class and typeAsheville-class gunboat
Displacement245 long tons (249 t)
Length164 ft 6 in (50.14 m)
Beam23 ft 11 in (7.29 m)
Draft5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Propulsion
  • CODAG
  • 2 × 725 hp (541 kW) VT-12 875M Cummins diesel engines
  • 1 × 1,370 shp (1,022 kW) General Electric LM 1500 gas turbine engine
  • 2 shafts
Speed40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)
Complement4 officers, 25 enlisted
Armament

The second USS Crockett (PGM-88/PG-88) was a Asheville-class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.

Crockett was laid down by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington, and commissioned 24 June 1967.

Homeported in San Diego, Crockett served off the coast of Vietnam as part of Operation Market Time.

Crockett transferred to the Naval Reserve Force on 1 July 1975 and was decommissioned on 1 October 1976.[1] On 15 December 1976, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register, and on 1 April 1977, ownership was transferred to the Environmental Protection Agency.[2]

R/V Rachel Carson

Once transferred to the EPA, the vessel was renamed for American environmentalist Rachel Carson. At the time, it was the largest limnological vessel on the Great Lakes, and her initial use was monitoring and analyzing pollution in Lake Erie.[3]

The Rachel Carson was declared excess to EPA needs in 1982 and was transferred to the state of Illinois, and thence to the Combined Great Lakes Navy Association.[4] In 1985 it was proposed that she be moved to Muskegon, Michigan along with USS Silversides as an exhibit in the naval museum there.[5]

She was scrapped at around 1986.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Gunboat PGM-88 Crockett". NavSource Online. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  2. ^ "Crockett (PG 88)". Naval Vessel Register. 28 December 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  3. ^ "RV Rachel Carson". Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  4. ^ Grobmeier, Alvin H. (January 1988). "Re:Environmental Protection Agency ships". Warship International. 25 (1). International Naval Research Organization: 5–12. JSTOR 44889194. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  5. ^ Davis, Robert (9 September 1985). "WWII Sub at Navy Pier Awaits New Orders". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  6. ^ "PG-88 Crockett". Gunboat Riders. Retrieved 20 June 2009.

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