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PGM-7



Call sign:
Nan - Fox - Love - Peter

ex-SC-1072

Sunk 18 July 1944
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 10 March 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, New Jersey; Launched 17 June 1943; Commissioned USS SC-1072, 28 June 1943; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-7, 10 December 1943. She was sent to the Solomon Islands area for patrol service, and on the night of 18 July 1944, was lost in an accidental collision off Torokina, Bougainville Island, and sunk in the Bismarck Sea.

Specifications: Displacement 95 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 21 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one 3"/23 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, four twin .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

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PGM-7 114k c. January 1944
National Archives photo		 Original photo: Joe Radigan
Replacement photo: Dan Treadwell
PGM-7 107k Photographed by the South Coast Company, Newport Beach, California, in January 1944, after completion of her conversion from USS SC-1072.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96497		 Naval Historical Center
PGM-7 193k c. January 1943
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PGM-7 244k Interior of Bridge and Mast details
Photo by Kent Hitchcock, Marine and Commercial Photographer, Balboa, CA
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PGM-7 246k Interior of Bridge
Photo by Kent Hitchcock, Marine and Commercial Photographer, Balboa, CA
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PGM-7 281k Interior of Radio Room
Photo by Kent Hitchcock, Marine and Commercial Photographer, Balboa, CA
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
There is no DANFS history available for PGM-7
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