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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS PGM-6, 1943-1947. Originally SC-1071

USS SC-1071, a 95-ton 110-foot submarine chaser, was built at Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned in August 1943, she was converted to a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-6 in December 1943. During April-June 1944, she participated in the consolidation of the northern Solomon Islands area. A year later, in April 1945, PGM-6 took part in landings on Mindanao, in the southern Philippines. Stricken from the Navy list in February 1946, the motor gunboat was transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission in May 1947.

This page features our only views of USS SC-1071/PGM-6.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 96496

USS PGM-6


Photographed by the South Coast Company, Newport Beach, California, in January 1944, after completion of her conversion from USS SC-1071.
Note armament of eight .50 caliber machine guns in four twin mounts amidships, a 3"/23 high-angle gun forward and a single 40mm gun aft.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 590 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 96495

USS PGM-6


Photographed by the South Coast Company, Newport Beach, California, in January 1944, after completion of her conversion from USS SC-1071.
Note armament of eight .50 caliber machine guns in four twin mounts amidships and the single 40mm gun aft.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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