Seaman Second Class  Howard Donald Edgar, Jr. - 1927-2024
US Navy Gunboat PGM-28 - Asia Pacific Theater
 
 
 

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.

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