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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
C158906-1
Date(s)
- 1970 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1970. Customer copy ordered by Tacoma Boatbuilding on July 29, 1970, of the PG-98, the "Grand Rapids." The ship was launched on April 4th with future president Gerald R. Ford and family in attendance. She would be commissioned on September 5, 1970. The "Grand Rapids" was the 11th of 12 patrol gunboats built for the US Navy by Tacoma Boatbuilding.
Gunboats--United States; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1970-1980; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);