GUNBOATS (PG, PGM, PE, and PR) USS Asheville (PG-21) sunk by Japanese warships south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 3 March 1942. USS Erie (PG-50) torpedoed by German submarine U-163 off Curacao Island, 12 November 1942, and capsized while under tow off Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, 5 December 1942. USS Plymouth (PG-57) sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-566 off North Carolina, 5 August 1943. USS St. Augustine (PG-54) sunk after collision with S.S. Camas Meadows off Cape May, New Jersey, 6 January 1944. MOTOR GUNBOATS (PGM) USS PGM-7 sunk in collision in the Bismarck Sea, 18 July 1944. USS PGM-17 destroyed by grounding off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 4 May 1945. USS PGM-18 sunk by a mine off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 7 April 1945. USS PGM-27 destroyed by grounding during typhoon at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 9 October 1945. EAGLE(PE) USS PE-56 lost by explosion off Portland, Maine, 23 April 1945. RIVER GUNBOATS(PR) USS Luzon (PR-7) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942. USS Mindanao (PR-8) sunk by Japanese aircraft off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 5 May 1942. USS Oahu (PR-6) scuttled off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 6 May 1942. USS Wake (PR-3) captured at Shanghai, China, 7 December 1941.