Laid down 2 November 1942 Renamed 10 December 1943 Fate Unknown Construction started 2 November 1942 Length 34 m Displacement 86,180 kg | Commissioned 12 August 1943 Reclassified 10 December 1943 Beam 23 Launched 1 May 1943 Weight 96.5 tons | |
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USS PGM-8 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 2 November 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc. in Wilmington, California and launched on 1 May 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-1366 on 12 August 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-8 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission in May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.
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