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PGM-2



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Peter - Charlie

ex-SC-757
ex-PC-757

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser/PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat:

  • Laid down 16 July 1942 as PC-757 by the Robinson Marine Construction Co., Benton Harbor, MI
  • Reclassified SC-757 in April 1943
  • Launched 17 June 1943
  • Commissioned SC-757, 12 August 1943
  • Converted to a Motor Gunboat and reclassified PGM-2 in December 1943
  • Decommissioned in January 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission at Subic Bay, Philippines
  • Sold in May 1947
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 21 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "K Gun," and two depth charge tracks
    After PGM conversion: One 3"/23 mount and one 40mm mount or two 40mm mounts and four twin .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-757
    SC-757 144k Photographed by her builder, Robinson Marine Construction Co., Benton Harbor, Michigan, circa August 1943
    U.S. Navy photos NH 96484 and NH 96485    		 Naval Historical Center
    SC-757 111k
    PGM-2
    SC-757 127k Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret.
    SC-757 78k c. 1943
    Line drawing by A. D. Baker, III from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman    		 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LT David C. Anderson, USNR12 August 1943
    02LTJG Ralph W. Raasch, USNRDecember 1944
    03LTJG Albert J. Allman, Jr., USNRJuly 1945 - December 1945
    04LT Edward B. Olsen, USNRDecember 1945 - January 1946
    Courtesy Joe Radigan and Wolfgang Hechler
    There is no DANFS history available for PGM-2
    Additional Resources and Websites of Interest
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
    "Subchaser in the South Pacific"
    by CAPT J. Henry Doscher, USN, Ret.
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