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PGM-9



Call sign:
Nan - Item - Tare - Tare

ex-PC-1548

PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 19 December 1943 by the Consolidated Ship Building Corp., New York, NY; Launched, 13 February 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1548, 1 July 1944; Converted to a Motor Gunboat, PGM-9; Grounded 9 October 1945 at Hira Sone Reef, Buckner Bay, Okinawa Shima; Decommissioned 10 December 1945. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 20.2 kts.; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, six 20mm guns, one twin .50 cal. machine gun, one 60mm Mortar; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PGM-9 408k National Archives photo Original photo: Rob Rielly, National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130.
Replacement photo: Dan Treadwell
PGM-9 84k National Archives photo Original photo: Rob Rielly, National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130.
Replacement photo: Dan Treadwell
PGM-9 67k National Archives photo Original photo: Bob Daly/PC-1181
Replacement photo: Dan Treadwell
PGM-9 355k National Archives photo Dan Treadwell
PGM-9 94k c. October 1945
Grounded after Typhoon Louise		 Randy Somerville
PGM-9 196k 9 October 1945 Deck Log James N. Hendon, F1C, former crew member
PGM-9 220k 11 October 1945 Deck Log James N. Hendon, F1C, former crew member
PGM-9 197k 15 October 1945 Deck Log James N. Hendon, F1C, former crew member
PGM-9 127k 10 December 1945 Deck Log James N. Hendon, F1C, former crew member
There is no DANFS history available for PGM-9
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