High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third USS Antelope (PGM-86/PG-86) was a gunboat in the United States Navy. She was a Asheville-class gunboat. Antelope was laid down on 1 June 1965 at Tacoma, Washington, by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company. She was launched on 18 June 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Paul V. Snow, the wife of the Deputy Counsel of the Naval Ships Systems Command. She was reclassified a patrol gunboat on 28 March 1967 and simultaneously redesignated PG-86 and commissioned on 4 November 1967, Lt. Jon Jared Gershon in command.