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USS PGM 8

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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.

References

USS PGM-8 Wikipedia


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