USS PGM-10

Ship of same class, USS PGM-17
History
United States
Name: USS PGM-10
Builder: Commercial Iron Works
Launched: 27 October 1943
Commissioned: 29 November 1944
Honours and
awards:		 4 Japanese plane kills to her credit [1]
Fate: Transferred to the Philippines
Philippines
General characteristics
Displacement: 280 tons (light), 450 tons (full)
Length: 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft: 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Propulsion: Two 1,280 bhp (950 kW) Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99 DA diesel engines
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement: 65 officers and enlisted
Armament:

USS PGM-10 was a PGM-9-class motor gunboat that was in service with the United States Navy during World War II, and transferred to the Philippine Navy shortly thereafter.

History

PGM-10 was laid down on 18 September 1943 as PC-805 by the Commercial Iron Works, in Portland, Oregon. After being launched on 27 October 1943, she was reclassified as PGM-10 in August 1944. On 29 November 1944, she was put into naval service as USS PGM-10.

On 5 January 1945, PGM-10 left San Pedro, California for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and arrived outside Pearl Harbor 6 days later on 11 January 1945. Later, on 3 February 1945 she steamed for Eniwetok, escorting LSM's and LSI's. Along the journey, she passed within 15 miles of the Japanese-held Wotje Atoll, coming within sight of Kawajalin. She arrived at Eniwetok two days later on 14 February 1945, leaving once again two days later escorting 4 merchant ships and a navy tanker along with 2 other Patrol Craft as escorts.[2]

PGM-10 would continue her duties in this fashion until 25 February 1945, when she began her first patrol duty. On 27 and 28 February 1945, she shelled a Japanese Radio Installation. By May 1945, she had four shot down Japanese planes to her credit.[1]

Typhoon Louise

Like the ill-fated USS PGM-9, her sister, USS PGM-10, was also present for Typhoon Louise. A deck log is as follows:

"17 OCT 1945. ARRIVED OKINAWA. LARGE NUMBER OF OUR SHIPS ON REEF DUE TO TYPHOON. PGM 9 IS ON REEF. TIDAL WAVE WASHED AWAY ATOLL OF ENAWETOK."[2]

Ship's fate

In October 1948, the ship was transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission.[3] Little is known about the ships post-war life, only that she was transferred to the Philippine Navy after late 1948.

References

  1. 1 2 archives 1; Naval Source online
  2. 1 2 page 2; Naval Source online
  3. ↑ page 3; Naval Source online; accessed October 2015

External links

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