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PC-1643



Call sign:
Tango - Bravo - Lima - Romeo


PC-1643 built for Turkey.

PC-1638 Class Submarine Chaser: PC-1643 was the last of six PC's built for the Turkish Navy at the Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp., Portland, Oregon. She was built in sections and shipped to the Naval Shipyard at Golcuk, Turkey where she was assembled. Launched in December 1964; Commissioned in July 1965 as Kochisar (P 116) in the Turkish Navy; Struck from the Naval list, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; Armament one Mk 15 ASW Hedgehog mortar, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-1643 143k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

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