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PGM-8



Call sign:
November - Tango - Oscar - Mike

ex-SC-1366

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 2 November 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc., Wilmington, CA; Launched, 1 May 1943; Commissioned USS SC-1366, 12 August 1943; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-8, 10 December 1943; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission in May 1947. Fate unknown.

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, six 20mm guns, four twin .50 cal. machine guns, one 60mm mortar; Propulsion two 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

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