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PC / PCC-578



Call sign: November - Uniform - Juliet - Xray



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 December 1941 by the Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 29 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-578, 15 July 1942. During World War II, PC-578 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following operations: Leyte landings, 19 - 26 February 1945; assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April - 10 June 1945; and Navy occupation service (Asia), 2 September - 1 November 1945. Reclassified as an Amphibious Control Vessel PCC-578, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Sold, 14 April 1948 at Pearl Harbor, HI. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832351 and 832352), two shafts.
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Albina Works 504k 28 April 1942. Albina Engine & Machinery Works. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Ships identified by George Murray

There is no DANFS history available for PC / PCC-578 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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