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PC-817 Welch



Call sign: November - Xray - Hotel - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 January 1943 at Albina Engine & Machinery Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 4 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-817, 13 July 1943; Decommissioned, 11 July 1946 at Toledo, Ohio and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Welch (PC-817), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959 and sold for scrap.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6991 and 6992), two shafts.

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