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PC-574



Call sign: November - Uniform - Bravo - Sierra



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 December 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 30 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-574, 2 July 1942; Decommissioned, 15 May 1946 in Hawaii; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Sold, December 1946 to Sid's Truck and Auto Sales, Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 Officers, 53 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6678 and 6679), two shafts.
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PC-574 116k - Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-574 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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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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