USS PGM-8
USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat | |
History | |
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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: |
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Speed: | 21 knots |
Complement: | 28 |
Armament: |
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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.
References
- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-8
- USS SC-1366 (SC-1366)
- see PGM-3 for service details
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