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PC-1557 / PGM-26


PGM-26 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 13 August 1944 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY as PC-1557; Reclassified as a motor gunboat, 16 August 1944 and renamed PGM-26, (date unknown); Launched, 25 September 1944; Commissioned, 24 February 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Republic of China, 30 June 1948 and renamed Ou Chang (PC 102); Struck from the Naval Register, 1964. 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-26 50k . Bob Daly PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PGM-26 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

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