
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
PC-1598 (USS Excel)
- PC-1568 class Submarine Chaser (ex Adroit class Minesweeper):
- Displacement: 450 tons
- Length: 173'8"
- Beam: 23'
- Draft: 11'7"
- Speed: 17 knots
- Armament: 1 3"/50, 1 40mm
- Complement: 105
- Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, twin screws, 1,770 shaft hp.
- Built at Jacobson and commissioned as AM-94, 10 December 1942
- Reclassified as Sub Chaser (PC-1598), 1 June 1944
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October 5, 1998