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PC-786



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Quebec - Whiskey



PC-786 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 31 December 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 6 February 1943; Commissioned USS PC-786, 30 October 1943; Decommissioned, 19 May 1954 and transferred to the Republic of China; Renamed PC-108; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1969. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 285 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 single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7053 and 7054), two shafts.

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PC-786/792 43k c. 1943 - 45, Dutch Harbor, Aleutians.
PC-786 and PC-792 tied up astern of Phoebe (AMc 57).
Contributed by Cyrus Dodd III, in honor of his father, Cyrus C. Dodd Jr., former crew member of Phoebe.
PC-778 45k c. 1945, (right to left) PC-818, PC-786, PC-778, PC-788, PC-819, and an unknown PC at Adak, Alaska. Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson
PC-786 89k c. 1954. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-786 63k Lake Washington Canal, Seattle, WA. c. 1954.Puget Sound Historical Society Photo Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-118 54k PC-108
Chinese Navy Photo
Chinese Navy

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-786 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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