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PC-543


PC-543 served the Navies of the United States and France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 23 March 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI; Launched, 5 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-543, 26 May 1942; Decommissioned, 8 June 1944 and transferred to France at Oran, Algeria; Renamed Le Volontaire (W 61); Struck from the Naval Register, 12 September 1964; Scrapped in 1964.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6351 and 6352), two shafts.

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PC-543 39k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-543 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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