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Sturdy (PYc 50)



Call sign for Sturdy:
Nan - Yoke - Fox - Zebra

ex-PC-460

PC-460 Class Submarine Chaser/Coastal Patrol Yacht: Built in 1930 as the yacht Elda by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Acquired by the Navy, 4 September 1940; Converted to Naval service at the New York Navy Yard; Commissioned USS PC-460, 16 October 1940; Reclassified as a Coastal Patrol Yacht and named USS Sturdy (PYc-50), 15 July 1943; Decommissioned, 20 November 1944; Struck from the Navy Register 27 November 1944 and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 380 t; Length 154'; Beam 24'; Draft 8' 6"; Speed 17k; Propulsion, two six-cylinder Winton diesels, two shafts.

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PC-460 72k c. 1943
US Navy Photo		 Joe Radigan
PC-460 67k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-460 158k National Archives photo Original photo from Bob Daly/PC-1181
Replacement photo from Dan Treadwell
Winton Diesels 111k Engine room. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-460 131k 22 May 1943
Mobile, AL
After completion of repairs from submarine collision
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
PC-460 195k 22 May 1943
Mobile, AL
After completion of repairs from submarine collision
National Archives photo		 Dan Treadwell
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