USS PGM-2
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USS PGM-2
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| History | |
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 United States of America |
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| Builder: | Robinson Marine Construction Company |
| Laid down: | 16 July 1942 |
| Launched: | 17 June 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 12 August 1943 |
| Renamed: | 10 December 1943 |
| Reclassified: | 10 December 1943 |
| Struck: | June 1946 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
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| Class & type: | PGM-1/SC-497 |
| Displacement: | 95 tons |
| Length: | 110 feet 10 inches |
| Beam: | 23 |
| Height: | 10 feet 10 inches |
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| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Complement: | 28 |
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USS PGM-2 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 6 July 1942 by the Robinson Marine Construction Company in Benton Harbor, Michigan and launched on 17 June 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-757 on 12 August 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-2 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was sold and transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission at Subic Bay, Philippines on 20 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.
References
- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-2
- USS SC-757 (SC-757)
- USS SC-757, 1943-1947. Later PGM-2
- see PGM-3 for service details
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