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SC-1071 / PGM-6


PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 6 February 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, New Jersey; Launched, 20 May 1943; Commissioned USS SC-1071, 8 June 1943. Converted to a Motor Gunboat and renamed PGM-6, December 1943. During April-June 1944, she participated in the consolidation of the northern Solomon Islands area. A year later, in April 1945, PGM-6 took part in landings on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Stricken from the Navy Register, February 1946; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, May 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 95 t; Length 110'; Beam 23; Draft 10' 10"; Speed estimated at 21 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 General Motors 16-184A diesel engines, 1540 bhp.
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PGM-6 103k Photographed by the South Coast Company, Newport Beach, California, in January 1944, after completion of her conversion from USS SC-1071. Note armament of eight .50 caliber machine guns in four twin mounts amidships, a 3"/23 high-angle gun forward and a single 40mm gun aft. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
USN Photo NH 96496
Naval Historical Center
PGM-6 99k Photographed by the South Coast Company, Newport Beach, California, in January 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. USN Photo NH 96495 Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1071 / PGM-6 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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