USS Whitfield (AKA-111) [SEP] vessel class
USS Whitfield (AKA-111)
USS "Whitfield" (AKA-111) was an "Andromeda" class attack cargo ship whose construction was cancelled due to the end of World War II. She was named after Whitfield County, Georgia.
The ship was scheduled to be built for the U.S. Navy under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2898) by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., of Kearny, N.J. However, due to the end of the war in the Pacific, the contract for her construction was cancelled on 27
TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)
TCG "Sultanhisar" (P-111), ex-USS "PC-1638", was a of the Turkish Navy. She was built in 1963 by Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon as a submarine chaser.
The vessel was transferred on May 9, 1964 along with two other boats of the same class to Turkey. Three other ships of the class followed the next year. Commissioned on January 25, 1965, the "Sultanhisar" was stationed at the Gölcük Naval Base together with