USS PGM-4
USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat | |
Career (United States of America) | |
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Laid down: | 11 April 1942 |
Launched: | 27 June 1942 |
Commissioned: | 17 March 1943 |
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-4 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 11 April 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc. in Wilmington, California and launched on 7 September 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-1053 on 17 March 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-4 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 9 June 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.
References
- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-4
- USS SC-1053 (SC-1053)
- see PGM-3 for service details
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