Photo #: NH 85486
Sam Kak San
(South Korean submarine chaser, formerly USS PC-802)
Underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 17 June
1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85487
Sam Kak San
(South Korean submarine chaser, formerly USS PC-802)
Underway off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 17 June
1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85488
Sam Kak San
(South Korean submarine chaser, formerly USS PC-802)
Bow-on view, taken off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California,
on 17 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
Her sister ship Kum Kang San (Korean PC-702) is visible
in the right background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85489
Sam Kak San
(South Korean submarine chaser, formerly USS PC-802)
Stern view, taken off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California,
on 17 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
On the original photographic print, the ship's original U.S.
Navy hull number "802" can be seen welded on the stern,
directly above the painted Korean name.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85495
Sam Kak San
(South Korean submarine chaser, formerly USS PC-802)
At the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, on 16 June 1950,
following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
At left is her sister ship Kum Kang San (Korean PC-702).
Note railway crane on the wharf, 3"/50 dual-purpose gun
mounted on Sam Kak San's foredeck and USS Polaris
(AF-11) in the background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85496
South Korean submarine chasers Chiri San, Kum Kang
San and Sam Kak San (from left to right)
Nested together at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California,
on 16 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
Note deck and open bridge details on these 173-foot subchasers,
drums stowed on deck amidships, boxes stowed in the after gun
tubs, and Republic of Korea flags at the ships' sterns.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 85497
South Korean submarine chasers Chiri San, Kum Kang
San and Sam Kak San (from left to right)
Nested together at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California,
on 16 June 1950, following transfer to the South Korean Navy.
Note 3"/50 dual-purpose guns mounted forward, details of
main decks and open bridges and drums stowed amidships.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 97332
Sam Kak San
(Korean Submarine Chaser, # 703, formerly USS PC-802)
Crew fires the ship's 3"/50 gun "at the Communist-led
North Koreans along the west coast of Korea" (quoted from
original caption).
Photograph is dated 18 December 1951.
Official U.S. Army Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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