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Maynard (PC 780) ex-PC-780

Call sign: November - Uniform - Whiskey - Sierra

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: •Laid down 27 October 1942 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon •Launched 10 December 1942 •Commissioned USS PC-780, 10 June 1943 •Placed in service in July 1946 as a naval reserve training vessel in the 1st Naval District (Boston) •Decommissioned 12 June 1948 at Key West, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet •Named Maynard 15 February 1956 •Sold for scrap 10 September 1959 to Hughes Brothers Inc. of New York, NY •Towed to Hughes Brothers 9 October 1959. Specifications:

•Displacement 450 t. •Length 173' 8" •Beam 23' •Draft 10' 10" •Speed 20.2 kts. •Complement 65 •Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, and two depth charge tracks •Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7015 and 7016), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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