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PC-776 Pikeville

Call sign: November - Uniform - Sierra - Oscar
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 10 August 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 27 October 1942; Commissioned USS PC-776, 28 March 1943; Decommissioned, 21 May 1946 at Charleston, SC; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Pikeville (PC-776), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping to Hughes Brothers Inc., New York, NY, 14 September 1960.
Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament two 3"/50 guns, one single 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6837 and 6838), two shafts.
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