USS PGM-6

USS PGM-6 after her conversion
History
United States
Laid down	6 February 1943
Launched	20 May 1943
Commissioned	8 June 1943
Renamed	10 December 1943
Reclassified	10 December 1943
Stricken	February 1946
Fate	Unknown
General characteristics
Displacement	95 tons
Length	110 feet 10 inches
Beam	23
Height	10 feet 10 inches
Propulsion	2 × 1,540bhp Electro-Motive Corp. 16-184A diesel engines 2 × shafts
Speed	21 knots
Complement	28
Armament	1 × 3"/23 gun mount 1 × 40 mm guns 4 × twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns

USS PGM-6 was a PGM-1 class motor gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as a SC-497 class submarine chaser on 6 February 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Company in Camden, New Jersey and launched on 20 May 1943. She was commissioned as USS SC-1071 on 8 June 1943. She was later converted to a PGM-1 class motor gunboat and renamed PGM-6 on 10 December 1943. During the war she took part in the Pacific Theater. After the war she was transferred to the Foreign Liquidations Commission on 7 May 1947. Her exact fate is unknown.

References

• Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: PGM-6
• USS SC-1071 (SC-1071)
• see PGM-3 for service details