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PC-485

Call sign: November - Bravo - Romeo - Juliet

PC-485 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1 May 1941 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 20 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-485, 23 April 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to South Korea, January 1952 and renamed ROK Han Ra San (PC 705); Sunk in the inner harbor at Guam by Typhoon Karen, November 1962 along with the Philippine Navy RPS Negros Oriental (PS 26) ex-PC-1563. The vessels were sunk in water too deep for conventional salvage with the equipment they had at their disposal. The floating dry dock AFDL-21 was positioned over the wreck in fully raised position. Lifting slings were rigged and the dry dock flooded. The slings were tightened and the dock pumped out lifting the hulk off the bottom. It was towed to a shallow area and set on the bottom where it was floated and sold for scrapping in 1964.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six Officers, 53 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8-1/8 diesel engines (Serial 832223 and 832224), two shafts.
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Main deck of the Han Ra San about to break the surface. The salvage ships Bolster (ARS 38) and Reclaimer (ARS 42) are in the background. |
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-485 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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