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PC-814



Call sign: November - Zulu - Delta - Oscar


PC-814 lost during Typhoon Louise 10 October 1945.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 11 February 1944 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 13 May 1944; Commissioned USS PC-814, 5 June 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Lost in Typhoon Louise off Okinawa, 10 October 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 285 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; 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. 7739 and 7740), two shafts.

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PC-814 56k Last PC commissioned in U.S. Navy, 5 June 1945. Had only 127 days of active duty, 5 June - 10 October 1945.
Herb Alden Photo.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-814 39k Going full astern during builders trials on the Columbia River, Oregon.
c. 1945.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-814 72k Full astern during builder's trials, 13 May 1944
Courtesy of the Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon.
Herb Alden Photo.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-814 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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