USS PGM-32

USS PGM-32 was a PGM-9-class motor gunboat in service with the United States Navy during the end of World War II, and briefly post-war.

Sister ship, PGM-17
History
United States
Name: PGM-32
Builder: Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co.
Laid down: 14 August 1944
Launched: 14 October 1944
Commissioned: 9 February 1945
In service: 1945
Out of service: 1947
Identification: PGM-32
Fate: Sold, October 1947
General characteristics
Type: PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat
Displacement: 280 tons(light) 450 tons(full)
Length: 173 feet, 8 inches
Beam: 23 feet
Draft: 10 feet, 10 inches
Propulsion: Two 1,280bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99 DA diesel engines
Speed: 19 knots
Complement: 65 Officers and Enlisted
Armament:
Aircraft carried: none
Aviation facilities: none
Notes: [1]

History

PGM-32 was laid down on 14 August 1944, as PC-1568 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co.. Two days later on 16 August, she was reclassified as Motor Gunboat, and renamed PGM-32. On 14 October 1944, she was launched, and was commissioned on 9 February 1945, with LTJG G. A. Oberle, USNR, in command.[2]

On 2 September 1945, PGM-32 was present in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.[2]

In 1946, she participated in Operation Crossroads,the U.S. nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. PGM-32 would survive the blasts.

Ship's fate

PGM-32 was transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission on 27 October 1947 and subsequently sold. Her fate is unknown.

References
  1. "HyperWar: USS PGM-32". Ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
  2. "PGM-32". Navsource.org. Retrieved 2016-05-11.


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