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PCC-469
ex-PC-469

PC-469 manned by U. S. Coast Guard

Call sign: November - Alpha - Foxtrot - Golf
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 June 1942 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, MA; Launched, 10 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-469, 13 July 1942. During World War II, PC-469 was assigned to the Caribbean Sea Frontier and engaged the U-154 in a 5-hour battle in November 1942, damaging the submarine and emerging unscarth. She then went on to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following operations: Assault and Occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 - 28 February 1945; and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April - 28 June 1945 sinking two suicide motor boats and driving off a third in May 1945, and shooting down two Japanese aircraft six weeks later. Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-469, 20 August 1945; Following World War II, PCC-469 performed occupation duty in the Far East. Decommissioned in June 1946 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, FL. Her final assignment was to the U. S. Naval Salvage School Bayonne, NJ; Disposed of through testing in June 1949.
Specifications: Displacement 348 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2 kts; 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial # 832358 and 832359), two shafts.
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Manning the 3"/50 gun mount on an unidentified Submarine Chaser. |
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-469.
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