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Excel (AM 94)
PC-1598



PC-1598 call sign:
November - Alpha - Echo - Lima



Adroit Class Fleet Minesweeper: Laid down, 19 December 1941 by the Jakobson Shipyard, Inc., Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; Launched, 10 May 1942; Commissioned USS Excel (AM 94), 11 December 1942; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser PC-1598, 1 June 1944; Decommissioned, 22 January 1946 at San Francisco, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 11 June 1947 to the Tidewater/Shaver Barge Lines, Suisun Bay, CA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 275 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 7' 7"; Speed; 18k; Complement 59; 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 1,770shp Cooper Bessemer GNB-8 diesel engines (Serial No. 1985 & 1986), two shafts.

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Excel 85k Excel (AM 94) Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1598 97k With her new hull number already applied, the PC-1598 (ex-Excel, AM-94) displays the armament fitted to the Pacific units by Norfolk Navy Yard. Forward of the 3-inch gun are two 12-round Mk 22 Mousetrap antisubmarine rocket launchers, and two Mk 6 depth-charge mortars are mounted just abaft the newly installed 40-mm Mk 3 antiaircraft gun. The original Mk 7 depth-charge racks have been replaced with Mk 9s, with racks for reload charges fitted between them. The five 20-mm antiaircraft mounts are fitted two on the main deck aft, two abreast the foremast, and one atop the pilothouse. Note the crow's nest lookout position still fitted on the mast. Naval History magazine
August 2002 issue
PC-1598 107k PC-1598 Bob Daly/PC-1181

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