High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS PGM-7 was a gunboat that served in the United States Navy during World War 2. She was commissioned as USS SC-1072, an SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser on June 28, 1943. She was reclassified as a PGM-1 Class Motor Gunboat on December 10, 1943. She was dispatched to the Solomon Islands for patrol service.