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PC-475

Call sign: November - Alpha - Oscar - Golf

PC-475 has served in both the United States and French Navies.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 11 September 1941 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan; Launched, 16 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-475, 27 December 1941. During World War II, PC-475 was assigned to the European theater of operations. Decommissioned and transferred to the French Navy, 23 June 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed Le Resolu (W 33); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Le Resolu decommissioned, 6 January 1951. 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial # 6317 and 6318), two screws.
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