USS PGM-17
USS PGM-17
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS PC-1189 |
Builder | |
Laid down | 10 August 1943 |
Launched | 14 April 1944 |
Renamed | USS PGM-17, 16 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 2 July 1945 |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star for Battle of Okinawa |
Fate | grounded, May 1945; salvaged, sunk in deep water, October 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PC-461-class submarine chaser |
Reclassified: | PGM-9-class gunboat, 16 August 1944 |
Displacement | 280 tons (light), 450 tons (full) |
Length | 173 feet, 8 inches |
Beam | 23 feet |
Draft | 10 feet, 10 inches |
Propulsion | two 2,560bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99 DA diesel engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts |
Speed | 20 knots |
Complement | 65 |
Armament |
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USS PGM-17 was a
Career
PC-1189 was laid down on 10 August 1943 and launched 14 April 1944. She was renamed and reclassified PGM-17, a PGM-9 gunboat on 16 August 1944.[1] She was commissioned as USS PGM-17 on 24 November 1944 and assigned to the Pacific theater.[1] USS PGM-17 participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa between 25 March and 4 May 1945 before striking a reef. She was salvaged and towed to Zamami Shima, Kerama Retta and beached at Agana Ura.[1] She was decommissioned on 2 June 1945. USS PGM-17 was disposed of by sinking off the coast of Kerama Retta in October 1945.[1][2]
Service
After her commission, PGM-17 was sent to the Pacific theater and was involved in the Battle of Okinawa. During the first days of the battle, PGM-17 spotted and destroyed several Japanese mines with small arms fire.[1] On the first day of the ground invasion of Okinawa, on 1 April 1945, PGM-17 shot down a Japanese Aicha "Val" dive bomber.[1] PGM-17 spent the month of April and the beginning of May scouting and destroying mines, offering assistance to disabled and damaged ships, running supplies, and fending off kamikaze attacks.[1]
On 4 May 1945, USS PGM-17 ran aground an uncharted coral reef off the coast of Kouri Jima.
On 9 June 1945, USS PGM-17 was towed to the Agono Urn Cove on
References
- ^ a b USS PGM-17 (PGM-17), retrieved 2008-12-18