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PC-1550 / PGM-19

Call sign: November - Uniform - Golf - Delta
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 13 February 1944 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY as PC-1550; Launched, 11 April 1944; Reclassified as a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-19, 16 August 1944; Commissioned, 1 December 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic Pacific theater and took part in the following operations: Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 16 - 31 May 1945; Third Fleet operations against Japan, 5 - 31 July 1945; Mine Sweeping operations at "Skagway," (East China Sea/Ryukyus Area), 16 - 31 May 1945; and Sasebo, Japan, 9 - 30 September 1945; and Asian occupation service, 2 September - 19 October 1945, and 24 - 28 February 1946. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 16 June 1949. 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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Builder's trials off Jacksonville, FL. 12 November 1944. |
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-1550/PGM-19 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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