FAMILY & FRIEND VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

Seaman Second Class Howard Donald Edgar, Jr. enlisted in the Navy on 10 March 1944.  On 25 June 1944, a few months after his enlistment the active patrol craft PC-1559 was laid down by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., New York, NY and refitted as a PGM-9 Class Motor Gunboat. It was reclassified as a Motor Gunboat, PGM-28, 16 August 1944 and launched 19 November 1944.

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 gun mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors (Hedgehogs), four depth charge projectors (K-guns), and two depth charge tracks

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