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Winnemucca (PC 1145)



Call sign: November - Golf - Zulu - Papa


Winnemucca served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 2 June 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 27 October 1943; Commissioned USS
PC-1145
, 1 June 1944 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 15 February 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Named Winnemucca 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1960; Transferred to South Korea, 1 November 1960. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-1143 307k c. 1951 - 1954.
Pearl Harbor, HI
Jack Brown
PC-1143 391k c. 1951 - 1954.
Pearl Harbor, HI
Crew photo.
Jack Brown, first row, fifth from left.
Jack Brown
PC-1143 358k c. 1951 - 1954.
Pearl Harbor, HI
Crew photo.
Jack Brown, first row, second from left.
Jack Brown

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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