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PC-1089 / PGM-13

Call sign: November - Tango - Delta - Romeo
PGM-13 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat: Laid down, 19 January 1945 by George Lawley & Son, Inc., Neponset, MA as PC-1089; Reclassified as a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-13 prior to launching; Launched, 12 April 1945; Commissioned, 14 June 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Republic of China, 30 June 1948 and renamed Tung Ting (PC 102); Sunk off Quemoy Island, 10 January 1955 by a Motor Torpedo Boat of the People's Republic of China.
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-13 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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