USS Welch

USS Welch

USS "Welch" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

* USS Welch (PC-817), a patrol craft commissioned on 13 July 1943.

* USS Welch (PG-93), a gunboat commissioned 8 September 1969.

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