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Anoka (PC 571)
ex-PC-571

Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Bravo - Sierra

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 27 September 1941 at Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon

Launched 12 February 1942

Commissioned USS PC-571, 22 May 1942 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA

Decommissioned 15 November 1946 at Astoria, Oregon and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tongue Point Group

Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as January 1947

Named Anoka 15 February 1956

Struck from the Navy Register 1 November 1957

Sold for scrap 9 May 1960 to Tidewater Shaver Barge Line of Portland.

Specifications:

Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)

Length 173' 8"

Beam 23'

Draft 10' 10"

Speed 20.2 kts.

Complement 65

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion two 1,440bhp Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832231 and 832232), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
1201056903	504k	28 April 1942 Albina Engine and Machinery Works Ships identified by George Murray	Bob Daly/PC-1181
1201057101	203k	13 January 1943 The ice-encrusted PC-571 on its journey through arctic waters to Kodiak, Alaska. She was reporting to the Alaskan sector of the Northwestern Sea Frontier after operating in the Port Angeles-Seattle area of Washington state Photo courtesy of the National Naval Aviation Museum	Bill Gonyo
1201057102	241k	13 January 1943 The ice-encrusted PC-571 on its journey through arctic waters to Kodiak, Alaska. She was reporting to the Alaskan sector of the Northwestern Sea Frontier after operating in the Port Angeles-Seattle area of Washington state U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum photos No. 1965.006.009.006 and 1965.006.009.007	Mike Green
1201057103			Mike Green
1201057104	44k	19-22 December 1942 PC-571, commanded by LT Stanley W. Erdahl, rescued thirteen officers and crew of a Patrol Wing Four, Patrol Squadron 42 (VP-42), PBY-5A (hull number V23, BuNo 7285). The aircraft, flown by Ensign Thomas F. Ewing and Machinist M.L. Sheperd, was forced down at sea by engine trouble on 19 December 19 after picking up a party led by COL Talley USA surveying Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. After taxying six hours, PC-571 arrived and towed the boat a further fifteen hours. Due to heavy swells and bad weather the flying boat sank in Uyak Bay. Survivors were taken to Kodiak NAS. Photos supplied from Bob Bergstrom's collection	Bob Bergstrom
1201057105	54k
1201057106	43k
1201057107	55k