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PC-1088 / PGM-12


PGM-12 served the Navies of the United States, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China.

PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 31 August 1943 by George Lawley & Son, Inc., Neponset, MA as PC-1088; Reclassified as a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-12 prior to launching; Launched, 18 January 1945; Commissioned, 24 April 1945. She served in Japanese waters soon after the end of World War II, supporting the occupation forces and taking part in minesweeping operations in the Tsushima Straits during late 1945 and early 1946. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). PGM-12 was transferred to the Republic of China on 30 June 1948 and renamed Tung Ping. Tung Ping defected to the People's Republic of China when they took over in January 1949, and remained in service into the 1970s. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 (lt) 295 (fl) t; Length 175'; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; Armament one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm guns, one twin .50 cal. machine gun, one 60mm mortar. Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, two shafts.
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PGM-12 95k Underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 28 April 1945.
USN Photo 80-G-318432.
Naval Historical Center
PGM-12 124k Underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 28 April 1945. Photographed by Naval Air Station, Squantum, Mass.
USN Photo NH 96498.
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for PGM-12 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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