USS PGM-4

USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat
History
United States of America
Laid down: 11 April 1942
Launched: 27 June 1942
Commissioned: 17 March 1943
Renamed: 10 December 1943
Reclassified: 10 December 1943
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement: 95 tons
Length: 110 feet 10 inches
Beam: 23
Height: 10 feet 10 inches
Propulsion:
  • 2 × 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines
  • 2 × shafts
Speed: 21 knots
Complement: 28
Armament:
  • 1 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
  • 2 × 40mm gun mounts
  • 6 × 20mm guns
  • 1 × twin .50 cal. machine gun
  • 1 × 60mm mortar

USS PGM-4 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as an SC-497 class submarine chaser on 11 April 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works, Inc. in Wilmington, California and launched on 7 September 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-1053 on 17 March 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-4 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 9 June 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

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