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PC-808 Ripley

Call sign:
November - Yankee - Charlie - Juliet
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 16 October 1943 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 29 November 1943; Commissioned USS PC-808, 7 March 1945 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.; Decommissioned 10 March 1949 at Norfolk, VA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA; Named Ripley, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping, 17 August 1959 to Hughes Brothers Inc., New York, NY.
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, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial # 7727 & 7728), two shafts.
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Underway in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee |
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Newspaper clipping (c. 1946), from the Milwaukee Sentinal, shows the USS PC-808 anchored in Lake Michigan inside the breakwater on the lakefront. Milwaukee at the time was celebrating their Centurama (100 years old).Underway in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee |
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Decommissioning ceremonies in the river in downtown Milwaukee beside Gimbel's Depaetment Store. The ship operated off of shore power from Gimbel's. At the time downtown Milwaukee was still using 110 volt DC power. c. July 1946. |
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