| 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 Harbor from Guam. She was escorted in by the patrol vessel USS PC-486 (Lt. R.B. Whitney, USNR). (1)
25 Apr 1945
During 25 April 1945, USS Skate (T/Cdr. R.B. Lynch, USN) and USS Pipefish (T/Cdr. W.N. Deragon, USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbor with USS Pruitt (Lt. D.B. Harby, USNR), USS J. Douglas Blackwood (Lt.Cdr. J.L. Johnston, USNR) and USS PC-599 (Lt. J.M Kindt, USNR).
They were then joined for night exercises by USS Cabezon (T/Cdr. G.W. Lautrup, USN), USS Capitaine (T/Lt.Cdr. E.S. Friedrick, USN) and USS Chew (Lt.Cdr. J.J. Mannion, USNR).
Night exercises were then carried out with a group of transports simulating a convoy. The group of transports was made up of the following vessels; USS Carlisle (Lt.Cdr. M.J. Carley, USNR), USS Cleburne (Lt.Cdr. F.T. Callahan, USNR), USS Crenshaw (Cdr. W.B. Studley, USNR), USS Crittenden (T/Capt. P.C. Crosley, USN), USS Cullman (Lt.Cdr. W.B. Dell, USNR), USS Riverside (T/Capt. L.N. Miller, USN), USS Bandera (T/Capt. A.C. Thorington, USN), USS Beckham (T/Capt. A.R. Sodergren, USN), USS Buckingham (T/Capt. H.G. Moran, USN), USS Kingsbury (T/Cdr. J.H. Hughes, USN), USS Lander (T/Capt. J.D. Sweeney, USN), USS Pickaway (T/Capt. H.L. Bixby, USN), USS Rockbridge (T/Capt. W.W. Cone, USN), USS San Saba (T/Capt. E.E. Berthold, USN), USS Waukesha (Lt.Cdr. J.S. Herold, USNR), USS Winston (Lt.Cdr. E.S. Doty, USNR) and USS Prentiss (T/Cdr. G.P. Walker, USN). [A source give that 18 transports were present so perhaps there was one more that is not listed here]. The convoy was escorted by 9 escorts according to the source which also stated that 18 transports had been present. USS Chew was the escort leader and he three escorts that had been exercising with the submarines also joined the convoy. Most of the above transports had already been out for exercises for several days during which they had been escorted by USS PC-486 (Lt. R.B. Whitney, USNR), USS PC-781 (Lt. F. Hopkinson, USNR) and USS PC-1078 (Lt. J.R. Slater, USNR) which were still present. [That leaves two escort vessels still unaccounted for.]
The exercises were completed on the 26th.
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.