USS PGM-32

Sister ship, PGM-17
History
United States
Name: U.S.S. PGM-32
Builder: Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co.
Laid down: 14 August 1944
Launched: 14 October 1944
Commissioned: 9 February 1945
In service: 1945
Out of service: 1947
Identification: PGM-32
Fate: Sold, October 1947
General characteristics
Type: PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat
Displacement: 280 tons(light) 450 tons(full)
Length: 173 feet, 8 inches
Beam: 23 feet
Draft: 10 feet, 10 inches
Propulsion: Two 1,280bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99 DA diesel engines
Speed: 19 knots
Complement: 65 Officers and Enlisted
Armament:
  • one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
  • one twin 40mm mount
  • six 20mm guns
  • four twin .50 caliber heavy machine guns
Aircraft carried: none
Aviation facilities: none
Notes: [1]

U.S.S. PGM-32 was a PGM-9-class Motor Gunboat in service with the United States Navy during the end of World War II, and briefly post-war.

Ship History

PGM-32 was laid down on 14 August 1944 as the PC-1568 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co.. Two days later on 16 August, she was reclassified as Motor Gunboat, and renamed PGM-32. On 14 October 1944, she was launched, and was commissioned on 9 February 1945, with LTJG G. A. Oberle, USNR in command.[2]

On 2 September 1945, PGM-32 was present in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.[3]

In 1946, she participated in Operation Crossroads,the U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. PGM-32 would survive the blasts.

Ship Fate

PGM-32 was transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission on 27 October 1947. She was eventually sold. Her fate remains unknown.

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