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USS PGM 1

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Laid down
  
29 November 1941

Renamed
  
10 December 1943

Fate
  
Unknown

Construction started
  
29 November 1941

Length
  
34 m

Displacement
  
86,180 kg

Commissioned
  
16 October 1942

Reclassified
  
10 December 1943

Beam
  
23

Launched
  
27 June 1942

Weight
  
96.5 tons

USS PGM-1

USS PGM-1 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II.

History

She was originally laid down as an SC-497 class submarine chaser on 29 November 1941 by the Peterson Boat Works in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and launched on 27 June 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-644 on 16 October 1942.

She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-1 on 10 December 1943. The PGM-1 received one battle star for action in the Northern Solomon Islands on 15 June 1944.

After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

USS PGM-1 Wikipedia