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USS PGM 6

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Laid down
  
6 February 1943

Renamed
  
10 December 1943

Struck
  
February 1946

Construction started
  
6 February 1943

Length
  
34 m

Displacement
  
86,180 kg

Commissioned
  
8 June 1943

Reclassified
  
10 December 1943

Fate
  
Unknown

Launched
  
20 May 1943

Weight
  
96.5 tons

USS PGM-6

USS PGM-6 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 6 February 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Company in Camden, New Jersey and launched on 20 May 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-1071 on 8 June 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-6 on 10 December 1943. During the war she took part in the Pacific Theater. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 7 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

USS PGM-6 Wikipedia