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PC-806 / PGM-11


PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: A modified steel-hulled PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser, Laid down, 27 September 1943 as PC-806 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 30 October 1943; Commissioned USS PGM-11, 13 December 1944. She was active in the Pacific theater, primarily accompanying minesweepers in and around the Philippines. These boats served an important support role during the war. Eldon Charles Schmitt, a former crewmember recalled that "They had more guns per square foot than any other ship at that time, hence the name gunboat." Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 (lt) 375 (fl) t; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 19 kts; Complement 50; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six 20mm guns, one twin 50 cal. machine gun, one 60mm Mortar; Propulsion, two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines, with Westinghouse reduction gears.
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PGM-11 79k c. 1945 John Schmitt for his father, Eldon Charles Schmitt, USN, Ret. who was a former crewmember

There is no DANFS history available for PC-806 / PGM-11 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II" by William J. Veigele Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793
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