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PGM-21
ex-PC-1552



PC-1552 call sign:
November - India - Uniform - Foxtrot


PGM-21 served the Navies of the United States and Greece.
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 11 April 1944 as PC-1552 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-21 prior to launching; Launched, 25 May 1944; Commissioned USS PGM-21, 22 November 1944; Transferred to Greece as Antipliarchos Pezopoulos (P 70). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t. (lt), 450 t. (fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 20.2 kts.; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one twin 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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USS PGM-21
PGM-21 121k Sonar hoist, 23 August 1944. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Antipliarchos Pezopoulos (P 70)
PGM-21 42k . Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS history available for PGM-21
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