Name U.S.S. PGM-32 Commissioned 9 February 1945 Out of service 1947 Launched 14 October 1944 Draft 3.3 m | Laid down 14 August 1944 In service 1945 Construction started 14 August 1944 Length 53 m Beam 7.01 m | |
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Builder Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co. | ||
U.S.S. PGM-32 was a PGM-9-class Motor Gunboat in service with the United States Navy during the end of World War II, and briefly post-war.
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History
PGM-32 was laid down on 14 August 1944 as the PC-1568 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co.. Two days later on 16 August, she was reclassified as Motor Gunboat, and renamed PGM-32. On 14 October 1944, she was launched, and was commissioned on 9 February 1945, with LTJG G. A. Oberle, USNR in command.
On 2 September 1945, PGM-32 was present in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
In 1946, she participated in Operation Crossroads,the U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. PGM-32 would survive the blasts.
Ship's fate
PGM-32 was transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission on 27 October 1947. She was eventually sold. Her fate remains unknown.