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Olney (PC 1172)

Call sign: November - Papa - November - Papa
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 March 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 5 June 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1172, 6 October 1943; Decommissioned, February 1955 at San Diego, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Olney (PC-1172), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold, 20 May 1961 to Hatch and Kirk Inc., Astoria, Oregon. They removed the General Motors 16-278A engines, overhauled and sold the engines along with the gears, shafts and props to the Luzon Stevedores of Manila, Philippines for new construction tugs. The hull was towed up to Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island across from Seattle, WA. Around 1969 the hull was cut down to a kind of landing barge configuration with a bow ramp. Bobtailed, it was re-powered with a pair of Navy surplus Murray & Tregurtha "Z" drives powered with Detroit Diesel 6-71 diesels. The hull became the 120 foot M/V Gleaner.
She worked in the high Arctic for 3 years chartered to the Western Geophysical, Inc. for seismic work at Prudhoe Bay during the Alaskan pipe line job. Around 1975 she wintered in a lagoon behind Kotzebue, Alaska. The following spring she was towed to Seward, Alaska and sold to the Peninsula Packing Company. They made her into a clam digger which ended up a total failure. She then did seismic work in the Cook Inlet and finally ended up on the beach across from Seward, Alaska in Resurrection Bay. Her new owner installed a pair of 8V71 Detroit Diesels with 3:1 reduction gear ratio, conventional shafts & props. He built two keels under the hull for new rudders and was replating the bottom . His plan was to load her up with all his worldly goods and head south for
Costa Rico. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14247 & 14278), two shafts.
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