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PGM-24
ex-PC-1555



Call sign:
November - India - Uniform - Lima
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 25 July 1944 as PC-1555 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-24; Launched, 13 August 1944; Commissioned USS PGM-24, 18 January 1945. 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-24 63k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
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