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PGM-28
ex-PC-1559



PC-1559 call sign:
Nan - Item - Uncle - Uncle


PGM-28 served the Navies of the United States and Greece.
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 25 June 1944 as PC-1559 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-28; Launched, 19 November 1944; Commissioned PGM-28, 9 April 1945. During WW II, PGM-28 received one battle star for minesweeping operations in the Honshu [Japan] area between 11 - 27 September 1945. Returned from the Philippines with one stop in Pearl Harbor, through the Panama Canal to New Orleans, LA and then to Norfolk, VA for refitting and decommissioning. Decommissioned 10 February 1948 at Norfolk and transferred to Greece as Plotarkhis Blessas (P 61); Struck from the Greek Navy list in 1963 and scrapped.

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-28 94k 10 April 1946.
Moored at Olongapo, Subic Bay, Philippines.
Lenor Art Studios, Subic Bay, Philippines.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
PGM-28 123k 10 April 1946.
"C" Division.
Olongapo, Subic Bay, Philippines.
Lenor Art Studios, Subic Bay, Philippines.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
There is no DANFS history available for PGM-28
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