USS PGM-8

USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat
Career (United States of America)
Laid down: 2 November 1942
Launched: 1 May 1943
Commissioned: 12 August 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"/23 gun mount
1 x 40mm gun mounts
6 x 20mm guns
4 x twin .50 machine gun
1 x 60mm mortar

USS PGM-8 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as a SC-497 class submarine chaser on 2 November 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc. in Wilmington, California and launched on 1 May 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-1366 on 12 August 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-8 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission in May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

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