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PC-1546 Grosse Pointe



Call sign: November - India - Tango - India



Grosse Pointe served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PC-533 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 28 November 1943 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 30 January 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1546, 5 June 1944 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; Decommissioned, 12 August 1955 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Grosse Pointe (PC-1546), 15 February 1956; Transferred, 21 November 1960, on loan under the Military Assistance Program to South Korea, renamed Kun Chang Sun (PC-708); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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, five 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-1546 86k Photo taken at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base shown alongside the Royal Norwegian Navy's King Haakon (P 309) ex-PC-467. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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