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.

History

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. The PGM-1 received one battle star for action in the Northern Solomon Islands on 15 June 1944.

After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

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