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Bethany (PC 620)
ex-PC-620



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Zulu - Golf


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 February 1942 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 12 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-620, 8 January 1943; Decommissioned 16 August 1946 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove; Named Bethany 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 5 September 1957; Sold for scrap in 1958 to Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore, MD.

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 single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7799 and 7800), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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