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Frostburg (PC 785)


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 December 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 23 January 1943; Commissioned USS PC-785, 9 October 1943; Named Frostburg, February 1956; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

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, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-784 59k c. 1945, (right to left) PC-793, PC-784, PC-785, PC-781, and an unknown PC at Adak, Alaska. Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson

There is no DANFS History currently available for Frostburg (PC 785) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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