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Metuchen (PC 781)



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Quebec - Juliet



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 11 November 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 24 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-781, 9 July 1943; Decommissioned, 14 August 1946 at Bay City, MI, and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service, 18 November 1949 at Norfolk, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Metuchen (PC 781), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959; Sold for scrapping, 14 August 1959 to Hughes Brothers Inc., New York, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7719 and 7720), two shafts.diesel.

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PC-784 59k c. 1945, (right to left) PC-793, PC-784, PC-785, PC-781, and an unknown PC at Adak, Alaska. Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson

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