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Jasper (PC 486)
ex-PC-486



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Sierra - Foxtrot


Jasper served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 25 October 1941 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY
  • Launched 25 January 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-486, 14 May 1942
  • Named Jasper 15 February 1956
  • Decommissioned 30 April 1959
  • Struck from the Navy Register 1 May 1959
  • Sold to Venezuela in October 1960 and renamed Mejillon (P-1)
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)
  • Length 173' 8"
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 10' 10"
  • Speed 20.2 kts.
  • Complement 65
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832227 and 832228), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    USS PC-486
    Jasper 364k c. 1942/1943 Billie Baker
    Jasper 374k Off the coast of Kiska Island, Alaska on 18 September 1943
    National Archives photo 80-G-89442    		 Mike Green
    Photo added 14 March 2020
    USS Jasper (PC 486)
    Jasper 364k c. 1956/1959 Bill Gonyo
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Drayton Cochran, USN14 May 1942
    02LT Robert Russell Robertson, Jr., USN - USNA Class of 1954
    Retired as Captain    		June 1957
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Joe Radigan
    View the Jasper (PC-486)
    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website
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    Booklet of General Plans
    from the Historic Naval Ships Association website
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
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