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PC-581 Manville



Call sign: November - Uniform - November - Bravo



Manville served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 12 February 1942 at Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 8 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-581, 9 October 1942; Renamed USS Manville (PC-581), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 27 March 1959 at Green Cove Springs, Fla.: Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Transferred, 24 March 1960 to Indonesia, renamed Torani (PC 318); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1960; Placed in reserve, 1979; Torani decommissioned, 1990s. Fate unknown.

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; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832363 and 832366), two shafts.

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Albina Works 504k 28 April 1942. Albina Engine & Machinery Works. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Ships identified by George Murray
PC-581 110k PC-581 alongside the Long Wharf in Newport, Rhode Island, just before she got underway to greet the ships of Escort Destroyer Division Sixty-One as they returned from a deployment to the Korean War zone on 14 March 1951. "CortDesDiv61", an Atlantic Fleet unit, had left Newport on 5 July 1950, and subsequently deployed to Korea via the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal. It returned to Newport via the Panama Canal, thus circumnavigating the Earth. The Division's ships were USS Fred T. Berry (DDE-858), the Division Flagship, USS Norris (DDE-859), USS McCaffery (DDE-860) and USS Keppler (DDE-765).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center
U. S. Navy Photo NH 97031
Naal Historical Center
PC-581 43k . Bob Daly PC-1181

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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