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USS PGM-5

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Gunboat of the United States Navy

USS PGM-5 after her conversion
History
United States
BuilderWilmington Boat Works
Laid down14 May 1942
Launched2 November 1942
Commissioned15 June 1943
Renamed10 December 1943
Reclassified10 December 1943
FateUnknown
General characteristics
Displacement95 tons
Length110 feet 10 inches
Beam23
Height10 feet 10 inches
Propulsion
  • 2 × 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines
  • 2 × shafts
Speed21 knots
Complement28
Armament

USS PGM-5 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 14 May 1942 by the Wilmington Boat Works in Wilmington, California and launched on 2 November 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-1056 on 15 June 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-5 on 10 December 1943. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 7 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

PGM-1-class motor gunboats
SC-497-class submarine chaser
List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy


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