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PC-614

Call sign: November - Uniform - Xray - Whiskey

PC-614 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 July 1942 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL; Launched, 23 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-614, 7 July 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to Mexico, 1952 and renamed Guardacostas (GC 32); Guardcostas stricken and scrapped, March 1964.
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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6973 & 6974), two shafts.
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