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PC-778 Gallipolis



Call sign: November - Xray - Delta - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 September 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 26 November 1942; Commissioned USS PC-778, 30 April 1943; Decommissioned, October 1949 at Norfolk, VA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Gallipolis (PC-778), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping, 15 September 1959 to Hughes Brothers, Inc.

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 depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7001 and 7002), two shafts.

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Gallipolis 52k . Robert Oft
via Don Oft
PC-778 58k c. 1945, Adak, Alaska Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson
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

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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