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Motor Gunboat / Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive
PC-1568
PGM-32
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 14 August 1944 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI as PC-1568; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat PGM-32, (date unknown); Launched, 14 October 1944; Commissioned, 9 February 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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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There is no DANFS history available for PC-1568 / PGM-32 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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