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Metropolis (PC 589)
ex-PC-589
ex-PCC-589
ex-PC-589



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Echo - November
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 March 1942 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 7 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-589, 23 July 1942; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-589, 6 June 1945; Decommissioned in March 1946; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Reclassified back to a Submarine Chaser, PC-589, 27 October 1955; Named Metropolis, 1 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrap 1 December 1959 to A. B. Church; Towed from the Columbia River Group 30 December 1959 to scrap yard. PC-589 earned one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2 kts.; Complement 65; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6357 and 6358), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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