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PC-1640


PC-1640 served the Navies of the United States and Turkey.



Yarhisar Call sign:
Tango - Bravo - Lima - Oscar

PC-1638 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 11 March 1963 by the Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 14 May 1964; Commissioned USS PC-1640, 27 August 1964; Transferred to Turkey 18 July 1965 at San Diego, CA as Yarhisar (P 113). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; Armament one Mk 15 ASW Hedgehog mortar, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-1640/1641 130k PC-1640 and PC-1641 believed to be the "first," two 173 foot PCs launched side by side at the Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corporation Shipyard on Thursday, 14 May 1964. The vessels were mounted on the same launching skid and braced about four feet apart amidships so they would not bump into each other when they floated free in the Willamette River. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1640/1641 103k 14 May 1964. Dan Treadwell
PC-1640 50k 27 August 1964
Portland, Oregon
Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp.
E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228
PC-1640 72k 27 August 1964 Dan Treadwell
PC-1640 67k 27 August 1964 Dan Treadwell
PC-1640 69k 27 August 1964 Dan Treadwell
P-113 86k Yrahisar (P 113). Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1640
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