USS PGM-5
 USS PGM-5 after her conversion | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States of America | |
| Laid down: | 14 May 1942 |
| Launched: | 2 November 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 15 June 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 |
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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, Inc. 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
- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-5
- USS SC-1056 (SC-1056)
- see PGM-3 for service details
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