USS PGM-6
 USS PGM-6 after her conversion |
| History |
 United States of America
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| Laid down: |
6 February 1943 |
| Launched: |
20 May 1943 |
| Commissioned: |
8 June 1943 |
| Renamed: |
10 December 1943 |
| Reclassified: |
10 December 1943 |
| Struck: |
February 1946 |
| 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
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| Speed: |
21 knots |
| Complement: |
28 |
| Armament: |
- 1 × 3"/23 gun mount
- 1 × 40mm gun mount
- 4 × twin .50 cal. machine guns
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USS PGM-6 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as a SC-497 class submarine chaser on 6 February 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Company in Camden, New Jersey and launched on 20 May 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-1071 on 8 June 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-6 on 10 December 1943. During the war she took part in the Pacific Theater. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 7 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.
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- Preceded by: None
- Followed by: PGM-9 class
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