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PC-493



Call sign: November - Bravo - Zulu - Bravo



PC-493 served the Navies of the United States and Thailand.


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 August 1941 at the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 24 January 1942; Commissioned USS PC-493, 28 May 1942 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, September 1945 at Subic Bay, Philippines; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 10 May 1947 and sold to Thailand; Lost in a typhoon at Manila Bay shortly after purchase in May 1947; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Stripped and abandoned.

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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines (Serial No. 6670 and 6671), two shafts.

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PC-493 46k Launching, 24 January 1942 at Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA.
USN Photo 119-N-27662.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-493 23k Photo taken from Carnelian (PY-19) by Albert Clark, RM1, USN Al Clark

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-493 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793


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