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PGM-1



Call sign:
Nan - William - Queen - Oboe

ex-SC-644
ex-PC-644

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat:

  • Laid down 29 November 1941 by the Peterson Boat Works, Sturgeon Bay, WI
  • Launched 27 June 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-644, 16 October 1942
  • Reclassified USS SC-644 in April 1943
  • Converted to a Motor Gunboat, PGM-1, 10 December 1943
  • Decommissioned 17 January 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidations Commission 20 May 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 21 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y Gun," and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.
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    PGM-1 88k Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Phillip D. Holden, USNR16 October 1942
    02LTJG G. L. Smith, USNRApril 1943
    03LTJG George E. Cornell, USNROctober 1943
    04LTJG Floyd Wallace, Jr., USNRMarch 1945 - 17 January 1946
    Courtesy Joe Radigan and Wolfgang Hechler
    There is no DANFS history available for PGM-1
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