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PC-789



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Able - Victor
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 23 January 1943 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR
  • Launched 13 March 1943
  • Commissioned 6 March 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 13 December 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in July 1948
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 450 t.
  • 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, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    PC-789 155k c. Winter 1946
    Tongue Point, Oregon
    Moored outboard of two unidentified LCIs and Endymion (ARL 9) prior to decommissioning    		 John Chiquoine and Dave Schroeder
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