Navy veteran of World War II and served aboard the minesweeper, USS Dynamic (AM-91), redesignated in 1944 as a
subchaser and renamed USS PC-1595.
The first several days were uneventful, save a few sitings of Japanese and Soviet freighters, but on January 21, off the coast of Myang Do, a North Korean modified 50-1
subchaser, doing about 25 knots, passed within 1,600 yards of the Pueblo.
During World War I, he commanded a
subchaser (small torpedo boat) that sank two German subs.
During World War II he served as a line officer in convoy escort operations in the Atlantic and amphibious and
subchaser operations in the Pacific.
He and his best friend were looking for an extra hand to take an old wooden
subchaser down the Intracoastal that fall, en route to the Caribbean.
North Korean forces from a torpedo boat and a
subchaser boarded the Pueblo.
subchaser SC-154 fired on a cable ship attempting to land a transoceanic cable near Miami, Florida.
Brittingham [Capt., USN (Ret.)],
Subchaser: The Story of a Navy VP NFO (Richmond, Va.: Ashcraft Enterprises, 1999), pp.
But so successful was the secret operation that in 1943 the US reinforced it with two
subchasers.
Minor Surface Combatants: This category includes minesweepers,
subchasers, motor torpedo boats, patrol craft, motor gunboats.