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PC-1138 Lapeer



Call sign: November - Golf - Victor - Yankee



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 January 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 19 April 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1138, 17 September 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned 13 September 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, Oregon; Renamed USS Lapeer (PC-1138), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold, (date unknown) to Ken Hinche and converted to an Icebreaker; Renamed Knit Bay; Knit Bay served in Alaskan waters; Sold, (date unknown) to Dave Updyke and converted to a Tug; Sold, (date unknown) to Belco Petroleum, Houston, TX and renamed Mister B; Mister B operated in the Peruvian Oil Fields. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, engines replaced (date unknown) with two Fairbanks Morse after conversion to a Tug, two shafts.

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PC-1138 58k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
Mister B 69k c. 1977. As Mister B. Seattle, WA
Photo by Harry McDonald from the George Schneider Collection.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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