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PCC-463
ex-PC-463



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Jig - William
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 10 August 1941 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, Massachusetts
  • Launched 27 February 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-463, 29 April 1942
  • Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaserl, PCC-463, 20 August 1945
  • Damaged by grounding during Typhoon Louise in October 1945
  • Repaired at Yokosuka, Japan
  • Decommissioned 1 March 1947 at Green Cove Springs, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as January 1947
  • Sunk as a target 20 July 1953, approximately 75 miles north west of Key West, FL (at position 25° 56' 48"N, 82° 52' 30" W) by USS Trutta (SS 421) using an experimental Mk 28 torpedo
  • PC-463 earned two battle stars for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa landings during World War II.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)
  • Length 173' 8"
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 10' 10"
  • Speed 20.2 kts.
  • Complement 65
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832237 and 832238), Westinhouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PC-463
    PC-463 54k 27 February 1942
    Launching
    Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection    		 Boston Public Library
    USS PC-463
    PC-463 87k c. May 1942
    Submarine Chaser Training Center Miami, FL
    National Archives photo 80-G-14658    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    Commanding Officers
    01LT J. E. Palmer, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-463
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