USS PGM-9
USS PGM-9 was a PGM-9-class motor gunboat in service with the United States Navy during World War II.
 Sister ship USS PGM-17 | |
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| Name: | PGM-9 |
| Builder: | Consolidated Ship Building Corp. |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1943 |
| Launched: | 13 February 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 December 1945 |
| Stricken: | 3 January 1946 |
| Identification: | Ship International Radio Callsign: NITT |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | PGM-9-class motor gunboat |
| Displacement: | 450 tons |
| Length: | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 1,440 bhp (1,070 kW) General Motors 16-278A diesel engines |
| Speed: | 20.2 knots (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 65 |
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Ship history
Laid down by Consolidated Ship Building Corp. on 19 December 1943, as PC-1548, she was launched on 13 February 1944. On 1 July 1944, she was commissioned into naval service. She underwent a conversion to a Motor Gunboat on 4 February 1944, and was renamed PGM-9, re-entering service shortly thereafter.
Ships fate
On 9 October 1945, at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in Typhoon Louise PGM-9 ran aground on Hira Sone Reef at 15:11. At 15:45, all personnel safely crossed to YF-744 which had grounded alongside.
Effectively put out of commission due to damage from running aground, she remained grounded on the reef and was decommissioned on 10 December 1945. PGM-9 was demolished 17 days later on 27 December 1945, and finally struck from the Naval Register on 3 January 1946.