| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Patrol craft |
| Class | PC-461 |
| Pennant | PC-486 |
| Built by | Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. (Morris Heights, New York, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | 26 Dec 1940 |
| Laid down | 25 Oct 1941 |
| Launched | 25 Jan 1942 |
| Commissioned | 14 May 1942 |
| End service | 30 Apr 1959 |
| History | Decommissioned on 30 April 1959 |
Commands listed for USS PC-486 (PC-486)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Drayton Cochran, USNR | 14 May 1942 | Early 1943 |
| 2 | Lt. Robert Bacon Whitney, USNR | Early 1943 |
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Notable events involving PC-486 include:
24 Mar 1945
The escort carrier HMS Ranee (A/Capt. J.A.W. Tothill, DSC, RN) arrived at Pearl Harbour from Guam. She was escorted in by the patrol vessel USS PC-486 (Lt. R.B. Whitney, USNR). (1)
28 May 1945
USS Apogon (T/Cdr. A.C. House Jr., USN) and USS Manta (T/Lt.Cdr. E.P. Madley, USN) departed from Pearl Harbor for their 7th war patrol and 1st war patrol respectively. They were both ordered to patrol off the Kuril Islands. En-route to the patrol area they were to call at Midway to top of with fuel.
They were escorted out until 2000VW/28, by USS PC-486 (Lt. R.B. Whitney, USNR).
Sources
- ADM 53/122096
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.