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Niagara (AGP 1)
ex-PG-52
ex-CMc-2



CMc-2 call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Mike - William

Sunk 22 May 1943
Niagara Class Coastal Minelayer: Laid down 14 November 1928 as the steel hulled yacht Hi-Esmaro by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; Launched 7 June 1929; Delivered 20 August 1929; Collided with a tanker off Newport, RI in July 1929 and returned to Bath Iron Works for repairs; Acquired by the Navy, 16 October 1940; Converted to a Coastal Minelayer, CMc-2, 31 October 1940 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; Renamed Niagara, 12 November 1940; Reclassified as a Patrol Gunboat, PG-52, 15 November 1940; Commissioned USS Niagara (PG-52), 20 January 1941; Reclassified as a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender, AGP-1, 13 January 1943. Lost to enemy air attack, 22 May 1943, between Tulagi and New Guinea, finished off by a torpedo from PT-147.

Specifications: Displacement 1,922 t(fl); Length 267'; Beam 35' 4"; Draft 17'; Speed 16 kts; Complement 139; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts; Propulsion two Cooper-Bessemer diesel engines, 3,000shp, two shafts.

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Yacht Hi-Esmaro
Niagara 113k Hi-Esmaro
Bath Iron Works photo		 Joe Radigan
USS Niagara (PG 52)
Niagara 137k Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right. USS Holland [AS 3] is at left, at the Submarine Base. Alongside her are submarines Sturgeon (SS-187), Spearfish (SS-190), Saury (SS-189), Seal (SS-183) and Sargo (SS-188). Niagara is alongside the wharf, ahead of Holland. Ships docked at the supply depot, upper center, are USS Oglala (CM-4) and the S.S. Maui. Among the ships at the piers in the extreme upper left are USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS San Francisco (CA-38) and USS Antares (AG-10). The two battleships moored by Ford Island, in upper right, are (left) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and (right) USS Arizona (BB-39).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
US Navy Photo 80-G-451131		 Naval Historical Center
Niagara 100k c. 1942 Robert Hurst
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