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USS PGM 4

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Laid down
  
11 April 1942

Renamed
  
10 December 1943

Fate
  
Unknown

Construction started
  
11 April 1942

Length
  
34 m

Commissioned
  
17 March 1943

Reclassified
  
10 December 1943

Displacement
  
95 tons

Launched
  
27 June 1942

Weight
  
96.5 tons

USS PGM-4

USS PGM-4 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 11 April 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc. in Wilmington, California and launched on 7 September 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-1053 on 17 March 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-4 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 9 June 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

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USS PGM-4 Wikipedia