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PC-590



Call sign:
Nan - Able - How - Baker

Sunk 9 October 1945
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 April 1942 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 4 July 1942; Commissioned 5 October 1942. Broke in half and sank during Typhoon Louise 9 October 1945 at Buckners Bay, Okinawa; Hulk destroyed 23 February 1946; Struck from the Navy Register in July 1948.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.(fl); 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. 7207 and 7208), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PC-590 106k Launching Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
PC-590 69k After commissioning with PC-591 outboard. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
PC-590 55k Sea trials. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-590 107k Okinawa, 9 October 1945. PC-590 breaking up in Typhoon Louise. CDR John B. Payne, USNR, Ret.
PC-590 68k After Typhoon Louise.
SM2c John J. Mulligan, Crew member October 1942 - November 1943		 Original photo: Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
First replacement photo: Mike Green
Second replacement photo: J. J. Mulligan
There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-590.
Read "Loss of the PC-590"
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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