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PC-586 Patchogue



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Delta - November



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 May 1942 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich; Launched, 15 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-586, 5 October 1942; Decommissioned, January 1950 at Norfolk, Va.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Patchogue (PC-586), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold to Potomac Shipwrecking Co. for scrapping. PC-586 received one battle star for World War II service.

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 rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7789 and 7790), two shafts.

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PC-586 84k c. 1945. Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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