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Fierce (AM 97)
PC / PCC-1601



PC-1601 call sign:
November - Alpha - Hotel - Delta



Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 18 October 1941 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 5 March 1942; Commissioned Fierce (AM 97), 12 October 1942; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser PC-1601, 1 June 1944; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-1601, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, December 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 15 June 1948; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold to John K. Seaborn; Converted into a twin engined Tug and named Seaborn II. Fate unknown. PCC-1601 earned two battle stars for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 295 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 11' 7"; Speed 17 kts; Complement 66; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount; Propulsion, two 1,440 bhp Busch-Sulzer BS 539 diesel engines (Serial No. BS1143 & BS1144), two shafts.
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PCC-1601 36k Pearl Harbor. c. 1945. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Seaborn II/DE-579 61k Leaving dock at Astoria, OR with Riley (DE 579) "on the hip." c. 1958.
Photo courtesy of CAPT Donald Hughes, Columbia River Pilots Association.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
Seaborn II/DE-579 61k Leaving dock at Astoria, OR with Riley (DE 579) "on the hip." c. 1958.
Photo courtesy of CAPT Donald Hughes, Columbia River Pilots Association.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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