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PC-1592

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Xray - Nan

ex-Dash (AM 88)

Adroit Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 6 April 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR

Launched 20 June 1942

Commissioned USS Dash (AM 88), 27 October 1942

Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser, PC-1592, 1 June 1944

Decommissioned 10 May 1946 at Pearl Harbor, HI

Transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal 19 December 1947

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 295 t.

Length 173' 8"

Beam 23'

Draft 6' 6"

Speed 16 kts.

Complement 65

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm mount, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks and two depth charge projectors

Propulsion: Two 900hp Cooper Bessemer GNB8 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
291k	c. 1943	Charles R. Hofbauer
564k	c. 1943 New Caledonia, Melanesia LeRoy C. Hofbauer, second row, second from right
579k	c. 1943 New Caledonia, Melanesia Back row, extreme right is LeRoy C. Hofbauer
435k	c. 1943 Right side of above photo Donated in the memory of LeRoy C. Hofbauer, SO2c, crew member from November 1943 - September 1945 and the crew of Dash

Commanding Officers
01	LT Robert Irving Thieme, USNR	27 October 1942
02	LT Arthur Ivan Ellsworth, Jr., USNR	10 July 1943 - 15 January 1944
03	LT Edward H. Tobey, USNR	15 January 1944 - 6 September 1944
04	LT George H. Mauney, USNR	6 September 1944 - March 1945
05	LT Rodney E. Sacks, USNR	March 1945 - November 1945
06	LTJG Albert Meltzer, USNR	November 1945 - March 1946
07	LTJG James M. Chapman, USNR	March 1946 - 10 May 1946


Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships History:The first Dash (AM-88) was launched 20 June 1942 by Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oreg.; and commissioned 27 October 1942, Lieutenant R. I. Thieme, USNR, in command.

Putting to sea from San Pedro, Calif., 3 January 1943 Dash arrived at Noumea 25 February, escorting convoys to Pearl Harbor and Pago Pago, Samoa, en route. She operated out of Noumea on local escort duty and antisubmarine patrol until 9 April when she steamed to Suva, Fiji Islands, to relieve HMFS Viti [T 373] as local escort and patrol vessel. From 3 to 7 May she escorted the torpedoed SS William Williams to the safety of Suva. On 14 May she rescued 25 men including the commanding officer from the torpedoed SS Phoebe Hearst, and 3 days later picked up 56 men from the SS William
K. Vanderbilt.

Dash escorted a convoy to Guadalcanal between 26 July and 16 August 1943, then began steady duty between Noumea Efate, and Espiritu Santo. Returning to Guadalcanal 4 October she swept mines off Kolombangara Island from 23 October to 6 November, then returned to escort duty between the Solomons and Noumea and Espiritu Santo. Aside from a voyage to Auckland, New Zealand between 16 January and 1 February 1944 escorting Delphinius (AF-24), Dash alternated escort duty and patrol in the Solomons, New Hebrides, and New Caledonia until the end of the war. She was reclassified
PC-1592, 1 June 1944.

PC-1592 remained in the South Pacific, operating in the Fiji Islands and Samoa until her return to Pearl Harbor. She was decommissioned there 10 May 1946 and transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal 19 December 1947.

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