USS PGM-2

USS PGM-2
Career (United States of America)
Builder: Robinson Marine Construction Company
Laid down: 16 July 1942
Launched: 17 June 1943
Commissioned: 12 August 1943
Renamed: 10 December 1943
Reclassified: 10 December 1943
Struck: June 1946
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Class and type:PGM-1/SC-497
Displacement:95 tons
Length:110 feet 10 inches
Beam:23
Height:10 feet 10 inches
Propulsion:2 x 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corporation 16-184A diesel engines
2 x shafts
Speed:21 knots
Complement:28
Armament:1 x 3"/23 dual purpose gun mount
1 x 40mm gun mount
8 x twin .50 cal. machine guns

USS PGM-2 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 6 July 1942 by the Robinson Marine Construction Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan and launched on 17 June 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-757 on 12 August 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-2 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was sold and transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission at Subic Bay, Philippines on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

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