USS PGM-4
![]() USS PGM-2, a similar PGM-1 class motor gunboat | |
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Name | PGM-4 |
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 |
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Speed | 21 knots |
Complement | 28 |
Armament |
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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.
References
[edit]- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-4
- USS SC-1053 (SC-1053)
- see PGM-3 for service details