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PC-1642



Akhisar Call sign:
Tango - Bravo - Lima - Quebec


PC-1642 built for Turkey.

PC-1638 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down by the Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp., Portland, OR; Delivered 19 May 1965; Transferred to Turkey as Sivrihisar (P 115). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; Armament one Mk 15 ASW Hedgehog mortar, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, two shafts.
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PC-1642 65k 16 April 1965
Portland, Oregon
Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp.
Dan Treadwell

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