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PGM-20



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

ex-PC-1551



PC-1550 call sign:
November - India - Uniform - Delta


PGM-20 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 12 March 1944 as PC-1551 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-20 prior to launching; Launched, 7 May 1944; Commissioned PGM-20, 2 December 1944; Transferred to the Republic of China 30 June 1948 as PC-101; Sunk off Quemoy Island, 20 January 1955 by a Motor Torpedo Boat of the People's Republic of China.

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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