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PC-1255
PGM-18

Call sign: November - Uniform - Foxtrot - Sierra
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 September 1943 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 23 January 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1255, 1 September 1944; Decommissioned, October 1944; Converted to a Motor Gunboat by the Dade Dry Docks Corp., Miami, FL; Recommissioned, 18 December 1944 as PGM-18; Sunk, 7 April 1945 by a mine at Bruckner Bay, Okinawa with the loss of 13 lives.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.
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Model of the PGM-18 built by Joe Kelliher of the PCSA. |
Bob Daly/PC-1181 |
There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1255 / PGM-18 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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