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CMc-2 / PG-52 / AGP-1 Niagara



CMc-2 call sign:
November - Uniform - Mike - Whiskey



Niagara Class Coastal Minelayer: Laid down, 1929 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine as the steel hulled yacht Hi-Esmaro; Aquired by the Navy, 16 October 1940; Converted to a Coastal Minelayer CMc-2, 31 October 1940 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; Renamed Niagara, 12 November 1940; Reclassified a Patrol Gunboat PG-52, 15 November 1940; Commissioned USS Niagara (PG-52), 20 January 1941; Reclassified as a Motor Torpedo Boat Tender AGP-1, 13 January 1943. Lost to enemy air attack, 22 May 1943, between Tulagi and New Guinea, finished off by a torpedo from PT-147. Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown).

Specifications: Displacement 1,922 t(fl); Length 267'; Beam 35' 4"; Draft 17'; Speed 16 kts; Complement 139; Armament two 3"/50 gun mounts; Propulsion Cooper-Bessemer diesel engines, 3,000shp, two shafts.
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Niagara 137k Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Aerial view, looking west, with the supply depot in upper center, 13 October 1941. Part of the Submarine Base is at lower left; the Navy Yard is in the upper left; and Ford Island is in the top right. USS Holland is at left, at the Submarine Base. Alongside her are submarines Sturgeon (SS-187), Spearfish (SS-190), Saury (SS-189), Seal (SS-183) and Sargo (SS-188). Niagara is alongside the wharf, ahead of Holland. Ships docked at the supply depot, upper center, are USS Oglala (CM-4) and the S.S. Maui. Among the ships at the piers in the extreme upper left are USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS San Francisco (CA-38) and USS Antares (AG-10). The two battleships moored by Ford Island, in upper right, are (left) USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and (right) USS Arizona (BB-39).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
US Navy Photo 80-G-451131
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