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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

PCC-1602
ex-PC-1602

PC-1602 call sign:
Nan - Able - Jig - Nan

ex-Firm (AM-98)

Adroit Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 21 October 1941 by the Penn-Jersey Corp., Camden, NJ

Launched 29 May 1942

Commissioned USS Firm (AM-98), 10 April 1943

Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser, PC-1602, 1 June 1944

Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-1602, 1 August 1945

Decommissioned in January 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 21 May 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 15 June 1948 and sold to Walter H. Wilms

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 295 t.

Length 173' 8"

Beam 23'

Draft 11' 7"

Speed 16.8 kts.

Complement 65

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

Propulsion: Two 1440bhp Busch-Sulzer BS 539 diesel engines (Serial No. BS 1145 & BS 1146), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Firm (AM 98)
	262k	Original photo: c. February 1944 Replacement photo: 14 February 1944 Off Boon Island Light, near York, Maine. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22 National Archives photo 80-G-214332	Original photo: Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII Replacement photo: Tracy White
	47k		Gunter Krebs
USS PC-1602
	77k		Bob Daly/PC-1181