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PC / PCC-549

Call sign: November - Bravo - Romeo - Alpha
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1 May 1942 by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI; Launched, 6 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-549, 2 August 1942; Reclassified as an Amphibious Control Vessel PCC-549, 20 August 1945. During World War II, PC/PCC-549 was assigned to the Caribbean Sea Frontier and the Asiatic-Pacific theaters and participated in the following operations: Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July - 5 August 1944; Capture and occupation of Saipan, 6 - 10 August 1944; and Navy occupation service, 2 September - 20 November 1945. Decommissioned, January 1946 at Long Beach, CA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 23 April 1948 for disposal and scrapped.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 (Serial No. 7771 and 7772), two shafts.
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