High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS PGM-18 was a PGM-9-class gunboat built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was built and originally commissioned as USS PC-1255, a PC-461-class submarine chaser, was decommissioned and converted in late 1944. She struck a mine off the coast of Okinawa in April 1945. Thirteen men lost their lives when PGM-18 sank. PC-1255 was built by the Luders Marine Construction Company in Stamford, Connecticut. She was laid down on 29 September 1943 and launched on 23 January 1944. She was commissioned as USS PC-1255 on 1 September 1944. She was decommissioned in October 1944 and converted into a gunboat at the Dade Dry Docks Shipyard in Miami, Florida. She was recommissioned as USS PGM-18 on 18 December 1944. She was destroyed on 7 April 1945 after striking a mine and foundering off the coast of Okinawa during the Battle of Okinawa.

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