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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the REPUBLIC OF KOREA NAVY --

Pak Tu San (Submarine Chaser # PC-701, 1950-1960)

Pak Tu San, a 173-foot submarine chaser originally built in 1944 as the USS PC-823, was purchased on the civil market in 1949 with funds raised among the personnel of the Republic of Korea Navy. She had previously carried the name Ensign Whitehead and was the first significant warship of the newly independent nation. Following outfitting, Pak Tu San arrived in South Korea shortly before the Korean War broke out in June 1950. During that conflict she was employed in operations along the Korean coasts. Pak Tu San remained in Republic of Korea Naval service until 1960.

This page features views of the Republic of Korea submarine chaser Pak Tu San (PC-701, 1950-1960).

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Photo #: NH 97002

Pak Tu San

(Republic of Korea Patrol Craft, PC-701, formerly USS PC-823)

Receiving her 3"/50 main gun at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, March 1950.
Photograph released 17 March 1950 by 14th Naval District PIO, with the following caption:
"GUNS INSTALLED ON KOREAN PATROL CRAFT .... The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on Wednesday started placing guns on the vacant mounts of the Korean Naval Patrol Craft 'Bak Dusan'. Scheduled for installation on the craft is one 3" anti-aircraft gun and six .50 caliber machine guns. The work at the local shipyard was authorized by the Secretary of Defense. Shown above are shipyard workers placing the 3" gun on the mount while Korean Naval Officers watch the operation. The 'Bak Dusan' which arrived in the Islands from New York on January 24, is enroute to its homeland."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 135KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 


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17 October 1999