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PC-790



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Xray - India


PC-790 served the Navies of the United States and Cuba.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 February 1943 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 22 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-790, 23 Mach 1944; Transferred to Cuba in 1956 as Baire (PE 203); Lost during the Cuban revolution.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two 2,560bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
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