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PC-602 Alturas



Call sign: November - Uniform - Tango - Kilo



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 12 April 1942 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 13 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-602, 16 September 1942; Decommissioned, March 1946; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, Oregon; Renamed USS Alturas (PC-602), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, July 1960; Sold, April 1961. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832361 and 832364), two shafts.

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Alturas 74k Consolidated Shpbuilding, Bronx, NY. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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