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PGM-32
ex-PC-1568



Call sign:
November - India - Whiskey - Alpha
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 14 August 1944 as PC-1568 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-32, 16 August 1944; Launched, 14 October 1944; Commissioned USS PGM-32, 9 February 1945; Sold 27 October 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 (lt) 450 (fl) t; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; 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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PGM-32 94k Launching. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PGM-32 79k . Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WW II
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