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PGM-26
ex-PC-1557



PC-1557 call sign:
Nan - Item - Uncle - Queen


PGM-26 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 13 August 1944 as PC-1557 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, 16 August 1944, PGM-26; Launched, 25 September 1944; Commissioned USS PGM-26, 24 February 1945; Transferred to the Republic of China 30 June 1948 as Hung Tse; Renamed Ou Chang (PC 102); Struck from the Naval Register in 1964. 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 gun mount, one twin 40-mm, six 20mm guns, four twin .50 cal. machine gun; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PGM-26 50k . Bob Daly PC-1181
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