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PC-1119 Greencastle



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, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Renamed USS Greencastle (PC-1119), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final disposition, sold 1 July 1958 for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament two 3"/50 guns, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, 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. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Search and Rescue - The search for survivors after the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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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