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PCC-598
ex-PC-598



Call sign: November - Alpha - Tango - Zulu

PC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 23 May 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-598, 5 March 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-598, 20 August 1945. PCC-598 was used as an amphibious landing control craft/beach master for six island invasions: Pelelieu (White Beach), Leyte (Red Beach), Luzon, Okinawa, Iheya Shima, and Aguni Shima. Decommissioned, (date unknown) and laid up at the Tongue Point Reserve Fleet, Kilisut Harbor, Port Townsend, WA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Sold, 29 November 1946 to the Foss Tug and Barge Co., Tacoma, WA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 10836 and 10837), two shafts.


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PC-598 92k . Robert Emerson
PC-598 42k . Robert Emerson

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