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PC-1565 / PGM-29


PGM-29 served the Navies of the United States and Greece.

PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 11 May 1944 by the Leatham B. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI as PC-1556; Reclassified as a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-29, (date unknown); Launched, 16 July 1944; Commissioned, 29 November 1944. During World War II PGM-29 was assigned to the Asiatic Pacific theater and participated in the following operations: Okinawa Gunto Operation, 24 March - 30 June 1945; Third Fleet Operations Against Japan, 10 July - 15 August 1945; Minesweeping Operations, Pacific, Sasebo (Kyushu-Korea Area), 9 September - 17 October 1945; and Minesweeping Operations, Paficic, "Skyway" (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area), 14 August - 9 November 1945. Decommissioned and sold to Greece, 11 December 1947 and renamed Plotarkhis Chatziconstandis (P 96); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Sold and scrapped, 1977. PGM-29 earned four battle stars and the Navy Occupation Service Medal for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 280 (lt) 295 (fl) t; Length 174'; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; Armament one twin 40mm gun mount (twin 40s removed and replaced by Hedge Hogs, 1963), 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-29 81k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1565/PGM-29 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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