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PC-799



Call sign: November - Zulu - Bravo - Juliet



PC-799 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 July 1943 by the Consolidated Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 14 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-799, 3 August 1944; Decommissioned, 1948; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Transferred to South Korea, June 1950, renamed Kum Kang San (PC-702); Final Disposition, in Korean Naval service until 1960. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement sic officers, 53 enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines (Serial No. 7355 and 7356), two shafts.
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PC-799 111k c. 1944
USN Photo NH 85155.
Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen
Naval Historical Center
PC-799 97k Seen here as South Korean Kum Kang San (PC-702)
17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
USN Photo NH 85482
Naval Historical Center
PC-799 85k Seen here as South Korean Kum Kang San (PC-702)
17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
USN Photo NH 85483
Naval Historical Center
PC-799 86k Seen here as South Korean Kum Kang San (PC-702)
17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
USN Photo NH 85484
Naval Historical Center
PC-799 94k Seen here as South Korean Kum Kang San (PC-702)
17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
USN Photo NH 85485
Naval Historical Center
PC-799 155k Seen here as South Korean Kum Kang San (PC-702)
16 June 1950, Mare Island Naval Shipyard
USN Photo NH 85494
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for PC-799 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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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