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PC-822 Asheboro



Call sign: November - Xray - Hotel - Xray



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 26 October 1943 at Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 27 December 1943; Commissioned USS PC-822, 2 June 1944 at New Orleans; Decommissioned, 12 July 1946 at West Palm Beach, Fla. and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service, 28 April 1950 at Norfolk, VA.;Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Asheboro (PC-822), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping between 1 October 1959 and 1 January 1960.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 80; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7321 and 7322), two shafts.

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PC-1180 58k Alongside the fitting out dock at Sturgeon Bay, WI with PC-1180 in foreground. 15 January 1944.
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-822 82k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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