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PC-623



Call sign: November - Uniform - Zulu - Uniform



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 22 June 1942 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 24 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-623, 10 April 1943. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following operations: Capture and Occupation of Southern Palau Islands, 6 September - 14 October 1944; Leyte Landings, 13 - 30 October 1944; and Manila Bay-Bicol Operations, Nasugbu, 2 - 31 January - February 1945. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 26 November 1946. 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 (Serial No. 10847 & 10848), two shafts.
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