USS PGM-9
 Sister ship USS PGM-17 | |
| History | |
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| Name: | U.S.S. PGM-9 |
| Builder: | Consolidated Ship Building Corp. |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1943 |
| Launched: | 13 February 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 December 1945 |
| Struck: | 3 January 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1945 |
| Notes: | Ship International Radio Callsign: NITT |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | PGM-9 class Motor Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 450 tons |
| Length: | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
| Beam: | 23 feet |
| Draft: | 10 feet 10 inches |
| Propulsion: | Two 1,440bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines |
| Speed: | 20.2 knots |
| Complement: | 65 |
| Armament: | One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40 mm Bofors, six 20 mm guns, two .50 cal. machine gun, and one Rocket launcher |
U.S.S. PGM-09 was a PGM-9 class Motor Gunboat in service with the United States Navy during World War II.
Ship history
Laid down by Consolidated Ship Building Corp. on 19 December 1943 as PC-1548, she was launched on 13 February 1944. On 1 July 1944, she was commissioned into naval service. She underwent a conversion to a Motor Gunboat on 4 February 1944, and was renamed PGM-9, re-entering service shortly thereafter.
Ships fate
On 9 October 1945, at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in Typhoon Louise PGM-9 ran aground on Hira Sone Reef at 1511 hours. At 1545, all personnel safely crossed to USS YF-744 which had grounded alongside.
Effectively put out of commission due to damage from both and running aground, she remained grounded on the reef and was decommissioned on 10 December 1945. PGM-9 was demolished 17 days later on 27 December 1945 and finally struck from the Naval Register on 3 January 1946.
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