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PC-579 Wapakoneta



Call sign: November - Uniform - Kilo - Victor



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 January 1942 at Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 29 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-579, 25 August 1942; Renamed USS Wapakoneta (PC-579), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 17 December 1955 at Norfolk, VA.: Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA..; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960. Fate unknown.

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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832353 and 832356), two shafts.

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Albina Works 504k 28 April 1942. Albina Engine & Machinery Works. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Ships identified by George Murray
PC-579 32k Post WW II photo. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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