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PGM-42


PGM-42 was built for the Philippines.



Call sign:
Delta - Uniform - Xray - Mike
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down as PGM-42 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA; Transferred to the Philippines in June 1960 as BRP Palawan (G 64) under the U.S. military assistance program; Reclassified PG-64. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 125.9 t; Length 100' 4"; Beam 18' 6"; Draft 6' 9"; Speed; 17 kts.; Complement unknown; Armament two 20-mm and two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two 2,200hp Mercedes Benz 12V493 TY57 diesel engines, two shafts.

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