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Odaesan 1961

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
백두산 [Baekdusan] (ex-PC823)	701		Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA	11.1943	15.1.1944	7.1944 // 1.1950	stricken 1960
금강산 [Geumgangsan] (ex-L'Impétueux, ex-PC799)	702		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	7.1943	14.8.1943	8.1944 // 6.1950	stricken 1960
삼각산 [Samgaksan] (ex-PC(C)802, ex-PC802)	703		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	8.1943	25.9.1943	1.1945 // 1950	stricken 1960
지리산 [Jirisan] (ex-PC810)	704		Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA	10.1943	11.12.1943	4.1945 // 1950	sunk 12.1951
한라산 [Hanlasan] (ex-PC485)	705		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	5.1941	20.12.1941	4.1942 // 1.1952	foundered 11.1962
묘향산 [Myohyangsan] (ex-PC600)	706		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	2.1942	9.5.1942	8.1942 // 1.1952	stricken 1968
오대산 [Odaesan] (ex-Winnemucca, ex-PC1145)	707		Defoe, Bay City, USA	6.1943	27.10.1943	6.1944 // 11.1960	stricken 1975
금정산 [Geumjeongsan] (ex-Grosse Pointe, ex-PC1546)	708		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	11.1943	30.1.1944	6.1944 // 11.1960	stricken 1975
설악산 [Seolaksan] (ex-Chadron, ex-PC564)	709		Consolidated SB, New York, USA	1.1942	12.4.1942	7.1942 // 1.1964	stricken 1975

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	280
Displacement full, t	450
Length, m	51.8 wl 52.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.06
Draught, m	3.30 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	2880
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000 (12)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR
Electronic equipment	SF or SO or SU radar, QHA sonar
Complement	70

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Project history

Former USN PC 173ft submarine chasers. First ship was purchased in September 1949 and delivered next year, next four were transferred during Korean War.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Jirisan was mined and sunk 26.12.1951 off Wonsan. Hanlasan was sunk in a typhoon at Guam in November 1962, later raised and scrapped in 1964.