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YWN-120
ex-YW-120
ex-PC-624

Call sign: November - Uniform - Zulu - Yankee

PC-624 served the Navies of the United States and France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 19 March 1942 by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 4 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-624, 29 August 1942. Sank the German U-375, 30 July 1943 in the western Mediterranean north-west of Malta, in position 36° 40' N., 12° 28' E.. Damaged by grounding 3 miles east of Palermo, Sicily on 12 March 1944. Reclassified as a Self Propelled Water Barge YW-120, 30 June 1944; Decommissioned, 22 November 1944 and transferred to the Free French; Returned to U. S. Navy, 21 March 1949 and reclassified as a Non-Self Propelled Water Barge YWN-120; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, two shafts.
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