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PC-1587

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Sugar - Charlie

ex-Advent (AM 83)

Adroit Class Minesweeper:

Laid down 18 August 1941 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR

Launched 12 March 1942

Commissioned USS Advent (AM 83), 15 August 1942

Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser, PC-1587, 1 June 1944

Decommissioned 12 January 1946

Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 18 March 1948

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 and two depth charge projectors

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

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No image of PC-1587 is available at this time

Commanding Officers
01	LT Kenneth Albert Tuttle, USN	19 August 1942
02	LT John Charles Sellers, USN	15 April 1943
03	LT Francis George Moore, USN	24 May 1943
04	LT Franklyn Samuel Wooster, USN	16 October 1943


Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

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