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Constant (AM 86)
PC-1590

PC-1590 call sign:
November - Bravo - Uniform - Juliet
Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 21 February 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 9 May 1942; Commissioned Constant (AM 86), 21 September 1942; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser PC-1590, 1 June 1944; Decommissioned, 19 June 1946 at Pearl Harbor, HI; Assigned to the 14th Naval District (Hawaiian Islands) for Naval Reserve duty, 28 October 1946; Placed in commission, in reserve, 5 May 1950; Placed in full commission, 20 March 1951; Placed out of commission, in reserve, 21 September 1954 at the Columbia River Reserve Fleet; Decommissioned, 22 October 1954; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sunk as a target vessel, (date unknown).
Specifications: Displacement 295 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 6' 6"; Speed 16 kts; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount and one 40mm; Propulsion, two 1,770shp Cooper Bessemer GNB-8 diesel engines (Serial No. 1978 & 1979), two shafts.
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