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PC-552



Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Uncle - Yoke
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 May 1941 by the Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 13 February 1942; Commissioned 28 July 1942; Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 5 December 1946. Fate unknown.

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 projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6327 and 6328), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PC-553 177k Keel laying of PC-553. Ship decorated with bunting is probably the PC-552. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-552 52k c. 1944
Original photo from the "The Patriot Ledger", Quincy, Massachusetts. January 1945.
Courtesy E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-552 Crew 119k Crew of the PC-552 Bob Daly/PC-1181
There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-552.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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