USS PGM-7, 1943-1944

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USS SC-1072, a 95-ton 110-foot submarine chaser built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in June 1943. Late in that year, she was converted to a motor gunboat and renamed PGM-7. She was sent to the Solomon Islands area for patrol service and, on the night of 18 July 1944, was lost in an accidental collision off Torokina, Bougainville Island.

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USS PGM-7, 1943-1944

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