USS PGM-1


USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat
Career (United States of America)
Laid down: 29 November 1941
Launched: 27 June 1942
Commissioned: 16 October 1942
Renamed: 10 December 1943
Reclassified: 10 December 1943
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement: 95 tons
Length: 110 feet 10 inches
Beam: 23
Height: 10 feet 10 inches
Propulsion: 2 x 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines
2 x shafts
Speed: 21 knots
Complement: 28
Armament: 1 x 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
2 x 40mm gun mounts
6 x 20mm guns
1 x twin .50 cal. machine gun
1 x 60mm mortar

USS PGM-1 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as an SC-497 class submarine chaser on 29 November 1941 by the Peterson Boat Works in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and launched on 27 June 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-644 on 16 October 1942. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-1 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

USS PGM-1 · USS PGM-2 · USS PGM-3 · USS PGM-4 · USS PGM-5 · USS PGM-6 · USS PGM-7 · USS PGM-8