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PC-1553
PGM-22


PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down 7 May 1944 as Submarine Chaser PC-1553 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY; Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat PGM-22, (date unknown); Launched, 25 June 1944; Commissioned, 23 December 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Sold 24 November 1974 to Pounds Marine Shipping, Ltd., Hampshire, England for $37,111.00; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Scrapped in Greece, (date 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 PGM-22 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association

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