![]() USS PC-1638
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Name | PC-1638 |
Builder | Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp., Portland |
Laid down | 1963 |
Launched | 1963 |
Commissioned | 1964 |
Decommissioned | 9 May 1964 |
Fate | Transferred to Turkish Navy, 9 May 1964 |
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Name | Sultanhisar |
Namesake | Sultanhisar |
Acquired | 9 May 1964 |
Commissioned | 25 January 1965 |
Decommissioned | 3 June 2002 |
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Status | Decommissioned |
General characteristics | |
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Displacement | 295 tons (full load) |
Length | 175 ft (53 m) |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 59 |
Armament |
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TCG Sultanhisar (P-111), ex-USS PC-1638, was a Hisar-class patrol boat of the Turkish Navy. She was built in 1963 by Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon as a submarine chaser.[1][2]
The vessel was transferred on May 9, 1964[3][4] along with two other boats of the same class to Turkey. Three other ships of the class followed the next year.[5] Commissioned on January 25, 1965,[6] the Sultanhisar was stationed at the Gölcük Naval Base together with other Hisar-class patrol boats, before they were deployed in 1977 to the naval base in Izmir.[2]
Sultanhisar was decommissioned on June 3, 2002[6] as Burak-class corvettes entered service.[2]
TCG Sultanhisar (P-111) was the third ship of the Turkish Navy to have the name, following the destroyer TCG Sultanhisar and the torpedo boat Sultanhisar.[6]