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PGM-32
ex-PC-1568

Call sign:
Nan - Item - William - Able

PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat:

Laid down 14 August 1944 as PC-1568 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI

Reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-32, 16 August 1944

Launched 14 October 1944

Commissioned USS PGM-32, 9 February 1945

Present in Tokyo Bay during Japanese surrender ceremony in September 1945

Participated in Operation Crossroads in 1946

Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 27 October 1947 and sold

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 280 t. (lt), 450 t. (fl)

Length 173' 8"

Beam 23

Draft 10' 10"

Speed 20 kts.

Complement 65

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm guns, one twin .50 cal. machine gun, and one 60mm mortar

Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
PGM-32
	94k	Launching	Bob Daly/PC-1181
USS PGM-32
	333k	Photo from the collection of Clarence Nelson Oswald	Original photo: Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WW II Replacement photo: Mary Boldt Replacement added 28 June 2020
	180k	Photo from the collection of Clarence Nelson Oswald	Mary Boldt Photos added 28 June 2020
	225k
	180k
	264k	ENS Clarence Oswald, USNR Photo from the collection of Clarence Nelson Oswald
	206k	Center: ENS Clarence Oswald Photo from the collection of Clarence Nelson Oswald