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PGM-19



PGM-19 call sign:
November - Uniform - Golf - Delta

ex-PC-1550



PC-1550 call sign:
November - India - Uniform - Bravo
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 13 February 1944 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY as PC-1550; Launched, 11 April 1944; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-19, 16 August 1944; Commissioned USS PGM-19, 1 December 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic Pacific theater and took part in the following operations: Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 16 - 31 May 1945; Third Fleet operations against Japan, 5 - 31 July 1945; Mine Sweeping operations at "Skagway," (East China Sea/Ryukyus Area), 16 - 31 May 1945; and Sasebo, Japan, 9 - 30 September 1945; and Asian occupation service, 2 September - 19 October 1945, and 24 - 28 February 1946. Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 16 June 1949. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one twin 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PGM-19 70k 12 December 1944
Builder's trials off Jacksonville, FL.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
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