USS PGM-8
 USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat |
| History |
 United States of America
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| 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 × 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines
- 2 × shafts
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| Speed: |
21 knots |
| Complement: |
28 |
| Armament: |
- 1 × 3"/23 gun mount
- 1 × 40mm gun mounts
- 6 × 20mm guns
- 4 × twin .50 machine gun
- 1 × 60mm mortar
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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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- Preceded by: None
- Followed by: PGM-9 class
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