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USS PGM 2

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Laid down
  
16 July 1942

Renamed
  
10 December 1943

Struck
  
June 1946

Construction started
  
16 July 1942

Length
  
34 m

Displacement
  
86,180 kg

Commissioned
  
12 August 1943

Reclassified
  
10 December 1943

Fate
  
Unknown

Launched
  
17 June 1943

Weight
  
96.5 tons

USS PGM-2

Builder
  
Robinson Marine Construction Company

USS PGM-2 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as an SC-497 class submarine chaser on 16 July 1942 by the Robinson Marine Construction Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan and launched on 17 June 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-757 on 12 August 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-2 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was sold and transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission at Subic Bay, Philippines on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

USS PGM-2 Wikipedia