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Exploit (AM 95)
PC / PCC-1599



PC-1599 call sign:
November - Alpha - Foxtrot - Alpha

Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 11 May 1942 by the Jakobson Shipyard, Inc., Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned Exploit (AM 95), 5 February 1943; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser PC-1599, 1 June 1944; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-1599, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, 14 December 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 18 March 1949 and sold the same day to the California Co., New Orleans, LA; Resold, 1961 to the Submarex Corp., Santa Barbara, CA and retained the name Exploit. Fate unknown. PC-1599 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 1,770shp Cooper Bessemer GNB-8 diesel engines (Serial No. 1987 & 1988), two shafts.
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PC-1599 117k PC-1599 Bob Daly/PC-1181

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