USS PGM-11

History
United States
Name	PGM-11
Builder	Commercial Iron Works
Laid down	27 September 1943
Launched	30 October 1943
Commissioned	13 December 1944
Identification	PGM-11
Fate	Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in October 1948
General characteristics
Type	PGM-9-class motor gunboat
Displacement	280 tons (light) 450 tons (full)
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 1,280 bhp (950 kW) Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99 DA diesel engines
Speed	19 kn (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Complement	65
Armament	1 × 3"/50 dual purpose gun 1 x twin 40 mm gun mount 6 × 20 mm guns 4 x twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) heavy machine guns

USS PGM-11 was a PGM-9-class motor gunboat in service with the United States Navy during World War II.

Ship history

The ship was ordered on 27 February 1942, and laid down on 27 September 1943, as PC-806 by the Commercial Iron Works in Portland, Oregon. Launched on 30 October 1943, she was reclassified as PGM-11 in August 1944. She was commissioned into naval service on 13 December 1944, with Lieutenant E. H. George, USNR, in command.[1] She was active in the Pacific theater, primarily accompanying minesweepers in and around the Philippines. On 14 April 1945, she was damaged when she ran aground off of Kerama Retto, southwest of Okinawa. She was later refloated and repaired.^[citation needed]

On 6 April 1945, PGM-11 assisted in the evacuation of the stricken converted minesweeper USS Emmons during an attack by the Japanese off Okinawa.[2]

She was transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in October 1948.^[citation needed] Her fate is unknown.

References

1. "PGM-11".
2. "USS Emmons (DMS-22) at Okinawa".

External links

• Action Report, USS Emmons, 1945
• U-boat.net- USS PGM-11
• Archives PGM-11