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Greencastle (PC 1119)
ex-PC-1119



Call sign:
November - Golf - Mike - Oscar
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 12 June 1942 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 11 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1119, 15 December 1942 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 9 January 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group.; Named Greencastle 15 February 1956; Sold for scrap 1 July 1958 to Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore, Md.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; 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 depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Greencastle 101k Crew photo. Valerie Loop.
Daughter-in-law of crew member Dewey G. Loop.
View the Greencastle (PC-1119)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Search and Rescue - The search for survivors after the Battle of Samar, 25 October 1944
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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