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PC-780 Maynard



Call sign: November - Uniform - Whiskey - Sierra



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 October 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 10 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-780, 10 June 1943; Decommissioned, 12 June 1948 at Key West, FL; Placed in service, July 1948 as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service, (date unknown); Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Maynard (PC-780), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 10 September 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7015 and 7016), two shafts.

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Maynard 64k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-610 111k Alongside PC-610 at Newport, RI
US Navy Photo from the June 1947 issue of "All Hands" magazine.
Joe Radigan

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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