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PC-1569 Anacortes



Call sign: November - India - Whiskey - Charlie



Anacortes served the Navies of the United States and South Vietnam.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 26 September 1944 at Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 9 December 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1569, 14 March 1945 at New Orleans, La. PC-1569 was the last PC built by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co. Decommissioned, 9 August 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, Oregon; Renamed USS Anacortes (PC-1569), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1960; Transferred to South Vietnamese Navy at Seattle, WA, 23 November 1960 and renamed Van Don (HQ 06). 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; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 55571 & 55572), two shafts.

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PC-1569 96k Launching. Sponsored by Mrs. Nellie Hines and the citizens of Grant County (Marion), Indiana through the purchase of War Bonds.
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
HQ-06 48k Van Don (HQ 06). c. 1971.
Vietnamese Navy Photo
Jane's Fighting Ships

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