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PC / PCC-802



Call sign:
November - Xray - Delta - Golf



PC-802 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 August 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 25 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-802 6 January 1945; Served along the U.S. Pacific coast during the remainder of World War II. In August 1945, following assignment to the Pacific Fleet's Amphibious Force, she was reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-802. Decommissioned April 1946; Struck from the Naval Register late 1946; Transferred to South Korea 1950, renamed Sam Kak San (PC-703); Played an active role in the fighting in inshore waters and among the Korean peninsula's offshore islands. Following the end of the conflict, Sam Kak San continued her South Korean Navy service until 1960. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 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, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial # 7713 & 7714), two shafts.
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PC-802 89k Seen here as South Korean Sam Kak San (PC-703) 17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
US Navy Photo NH 85486
Naval Historical Center
PC-802 90k Seen here as South Korean Sam Kak San (PC-703) 17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
US Navy Photo NH 85487
Naval Historical Center
PC-802 80k Seen here as South Korean Sam Kak San (PC-703) 17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
US Navy Photo NH 85488
Naval Historical Center
PC-802 93k Seen here as South Korean Sam Kak San (PC-703) 17 June 1950, San Francisco Bay
US Navy Photo NH 85489
Naval Historical Center
PC-802 148k 16 June 1950, Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Seen here as South Korean Sam Kak San (PC-703) following transfer to the South Korean Navy. At left is her sister ship Kum Kang San (PC 702). USS Polaris (AF-11) in
the background.
US Navy Photo NH 85485
Naval Historical Center
PC-802 155k 16 June 1950, Mare Island Naval Shipyard. South Korean submarine chasers Chiri San, Kum Kang San and Sam Kak San (from left to right) nested together at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
US Navy Photo NH 85499
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for PC-802 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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