USS Green Bay (PG-101)
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Green Bay as Tolmi (P229) in 2005
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| Namesake: | Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Builder: | Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI |
| Laid down: | 6 November 1960 |
| Launched: | 14 June 1969 |
| Acquired: | 5 December 1969; as Tolmi 18 June 1991 |
| Fate: | Sold to Hellenic Navy |
| Status: | active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Asheville class gunboat |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 237 tons; 265 tons |
| Length: | 164 ft 5 in (50.11 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
| Speed: | 40 kn (46 mph; 74 km/h) |
| Complement: | 28 officers and enlisted; 34 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 3 in (76 mm)/50 gun mount,40 mm (1.6 in) gun mount, 2 × 50 cal machine guns; 2 × 40 mm (1.6 in) autocannons, 2 × 20 mm (0.79 in) machine guns, stinger |
The USS Green Bay (PG-101) was an Asheville class gunboat in the United States Navy.[1] She has since been transferred to the Hellenic Navy under the name HS Tolmi (P-229).[2]
Green Bay was laid down on 6 November 1966 as PGM-101 by Peterson Builders Inc. in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. While under construction, she was reclassified as Patrol Gunboat, PG-101 on 1 April 1967.
She was launched on 14 June 1969 and was commissioned as USS Green Bay (PG-101) on 5 December 1969 at the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The Green Bay was homeported in Little Creek, Va and made numerous trips to Guantanimo Bay, Cuba to serve in the role of the aggressor in fleet exercises. In addition, the Green Bay participated in many exercises simulated the deployment of Navy Seals and US Marines onto hostile shores. On 9 August 1974, Green Bay was nominated, by COMPHIBLANT (Commander Amphibious Forces Atlantic) for the Arleigh Burke Award.
She was decommissioned 22 April 1977 at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virgnina and was struck from the Navy Register on 1 October 1977.
Green Bay was transferred to Greece on 30 June 1989 as the corvette Tolmi (P-229) and was commissioned on 18 June 1991.
Since 2002, the Tolmi has been stationed at Salamis Naval Base. Her main duties include patrolling the Aegean Sea.[3]
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