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PC-1548 / PGM-9
PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 19 December 1943 by the Consolidated Ship Building Corp., New York, NY; Launched, 13 February 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1548, 1 July 1944; Converted to a Motor Gunboat and renamed PGM-9, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Stricken from the Navy Register, (date unknown). 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 16-278A diesel engines, 2,880 hp, two shafts.
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National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130. Rob Rielly |
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National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130. Rob Rielly |
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There is no DANFS history available for PS-1548/PGM-9 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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