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PC-815



Call sign: November - Uniform - Whiskey - India

Sunk 11 September 1945

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 10 October 1942 by the Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 5 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-815, 20 April 1943; During a heavy fog off San Diego, CA, 11 September 1945, PC-815 collided with USS Laffey (DD 724) and was cut in half (all but one of the crew were rescued by Laffey).

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 diesel engines (Serial No. 6977 and 6978), two shafts.
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PC-815 72k Running trials on the Columbia River, 13 April 1943. .

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