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PGM-30
ex-PC-1566
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 29 May 1944 as PC-1566 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 12 August 1944; Sponsored by Mrs. Anastasia Carborwoski.. It was customary for L. D. Smith to launch all of its vessels on a Saturday so
that all the towns people could attend and the high school band could play
during the event. Most ships are launched by breaking a bottle of champagne
over the bow but because Wisconsin is the Dairy State they used a bottle of milk. Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-30, 16 August 1944; Commissioned 27 December 1944 at New Orleans, LA, LT Robert
L. Whitman, USNR of Miami, Florida in command. Her shake down cruise was to the Subchaser Training Center in Miami. After a month at SCTC, she received her orders, as
all other PGMs, to report to Pearl Harbor for duty in the Pacific. The PGM conversion was originally designed to work with the barge busting PT boats as added firepower but with a designed top speed of 20 knots they couldn't keep up with the PT boats. They were assigned to the mine sweeper units to explode or sink any mines the sweepers could sweep up. The PGM-30 was reported to have destroyed over 212 mines. Of the 24 PC/PGM conversions, 16 PGMs worked with the minesweepers during the Okinawa operations and later clearing the mine fields around the Japanese home lands. PGM-30 was awarded four battle stars for these operations. On VJ Day she was working with a minesweeping flotilla off the southern coast of Japan preparing for the home land invasion. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 7 April 1947; 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 1,440hp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, two shafts.
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