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PGM-5



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Jig - Oboe

ex-SC-1056

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 14 May 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 2 November 1942; Commissioned USS SC-1056, 15 June 1943; Reclassified a Motor Gunboat, PGM-5, 10 December 1943; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission 7 May 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications:: Displacement 95 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 21 kts.; Complement 28; Armament two 40mm gun mounts, four .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

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PGM-5 82k c. December 1943
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PGM-5 71k c. December 1943
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PGM-5 122k Wheel House
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
There is no DANFS history available for PGM-5
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