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PC / PCC-588 Houghton



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Kilo - Bravo



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 22 November 1941 by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 3 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-588, 22 June 1942; Reclassified Amphibious Control Vessel PCC-588, (date unknown); Decommissioned, 29 July 1946 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Houghton (PC-588), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 11 March 1960; Sold to Geomarine Services Inc., 11 March 1960. 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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PC-588 43k September 1945
D Day, Okinawa
Hagushi Harbor, western side.
Bill Kinney SC-1281
via E. J. Comeau PC552/1228
PC-588 77k c. 1942. Sea trial on Lake Michigan.
National Archives Photo 80-G-276603
National Archives
PC-588 68k National Archives Collection
Photo 80-G-276614
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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