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PC-819



Call sign: November - Zulu - Golf - Sierra



PC-819 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 March 1943 by the Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 19 May 1943; Commissioned USS PC-819, 28 August 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, June 1948; Transferred to Mexico, 1952; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7009 and 7010), two shafts.
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PC-819 146k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-778 45k c. 1945, (right to left) PC-818, PC-786, PC-778, PC-788, PC-819, and an unknown PC at Adak, Alaska. Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson

There is no DANFS history available for PC-819 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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