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AM-98 Firm / PC / PCC-1602



PC-1602 call sign:
November - Alpha - Juliet - November



Adroit Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 21 October 1941 by the Penn-Jersey Corp., Camden, NJ; Launched, 29 May 1942; Commissioned, USS Firm (AM-98), 10 April 1943; Redesignated a Submarine Chaser and renamed USS PC-1602, 1 June 1944; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, 1 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 15 June 1948 and sold to Walter H. Wilms; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, eight 20mm guns, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 1,440 Busch-Sulzer BS 539 diesel engines (Serial No. BS1145 & BS 1146), two shafts.

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Firm 61k Seen here as Firm (AM-98) Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Firm 47k Seen here as Firm (AM 98) Gunter Krebs
PC-1602 77k Seen here as PC-1602 Bob Daly/PC-1181

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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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Association of Minemen
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