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35°07′33″N 128°39′43″E / 35.1258338°N 128.6620263°E
.jpg) ROKS Baekdusan with South Korean flag painted on the side of the ship's superstructure in the 1950s
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | PC-823 |
| Builder | Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
| Launched | 15 January 1944 |
| Commissioned | 24 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 11 February 1946 |
| Stricken | Transferred to United States Merchant Marine Academy, June 1948 |
| Renamed | Ensign Whitehead |
| Fate | Transferred to South Korea, September 1949 |
 South Korea | |
| Name | Pak Tu San |
| Namesake | Paektu Mountain |
| Acquired | 17 October 1949 |
| Commissioned | 26 December 1949 |
| Decommissioned | 21 August 1960 |
| Identification | Hull number: PC-701 |
| Fate | Presumed scrapped |
| Notes | Mast preserved at Republic of Korea Navy Academy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | PC-461 |
| Displacement | 280 tons |
| Length | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
| Speed | 20 knots |
| Complement | 65 |
| Armament |
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USS PC-823 PC-461-class submarine chaser laid down on 2 June 1943 at the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 15 January 1944; and commissioned on 24 July 1944.
PC-823 served in the western Atlantic Ocean during World War II, being assigned to air-sea rescue duties during at least some of that time. On 11 February 1946, PC-823 decommissioned and transferred to the United States Maritime Commission. She was transferred to the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York on 18 May 1948, and renamed Ensign Whitehead as a training ship. Her name was struck from the Navy List in June 1948.
In September 1949, she was transferred to the Republic of Korea Navy and renamed ROKS Pak Tu San, (PC-701), and played a major part in the Battle of Korea Strait, the small naval battle fought on the first day of the Korean War in June 1950. The remains of her mast are kept in the South Korean naval academy.
- ^ "How a Lone $60,000 Patrol Boat and Its Single Deck Gun Changed the Course of the Korean War". The National Interest. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2020.