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PC-777 Waynesburg

Call sign: November - Whiskey - Papa - Xray
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 September 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 12 November 1942; Commissioned USS PC-777, 5 April 1943; Decommissioned, 26 April1946 at Charleston, SC and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service, 28 April 1959 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Waynesburg (PC-777), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping.
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; Propulsion Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6985 and 6986), two shafts.
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