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The "PG" designation was given both to patrol gunboats built in the US during the first half of the twentieth century and to corvettes transferred from the Royal Navy under reverse lend-lease in 1942.
PG	Patrol Gunboat or Corvette
PGM	Missile Gunboat
PGH	Helicopter Gunboat
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