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PC-486 Jasper



Call sign: November - Bravo - Sierra - Foxtrot


Jasper served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 25 October 1941 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 25 January 1942; Commissioned USS PC-486, 14 May 1942; Renamed USS Jasper (PC-486), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 30 April 1959; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1959. Sold to Venezuela in October 1960, and renamed Mejillon (P-1). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six officers, 53 enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D 8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial 832227 and 832228, two shafts.

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