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PC-560 Oberlin



Call sign: November - Echo - Juliet - Kilo



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 25 November 1941 at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 17 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-560, 17 June 1943 at New Orleans, LA; During World War II, PC-560 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. Decommissioned, 28 January 1947 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL; Renamed USS Oberlin (PC-560), 1 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold for scrap to F. and A. Transportation of New Jersey, Inc., New York, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6339 and 7788), two shafts.

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PC-560 32k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

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