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Towanda (PC 592)



Call sign: November - Alpha - Lima - Xray



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 31 March 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 27 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-592, 28 November 1942; Decommissioned, January 1950 at Norfolk, VA; Named Towanda (PC 592), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959. 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 (added one 20 mm on flying bridge, October 1942), two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6815 & 6816), two screws.

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PC-592 72k The Commanding Officer, LT W. T. Coyle, ENS Gladson, QM3/c Landers, and S1/c Severns admire the art work of V. T. Hamlin, creator of the comic strip "Alley Oop." Photo from the Vincent T. Hamlin Archives. Margaret A. Howell
University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries
PC-592 Crew 60k PC-592 crew photo. From left to right:
First row: Chevlier S2/c, ENS Hyde, LT Hess, LT Coyle (Commanding Officer), LTJG Ross, ENS Gladson, Severns S1/c.
Second row: Chiaro S2/c, Goff SoM3/c, Anderson SM2/c, Landers QM3/c, Morrison-Coxswain, Bosco S2/c, Eckberg MoMM2/c, Hinds S2/c, Johnson Matt3/c, Crane S2/c.
Third row: McClaren SF2/c, Brooks EM2/c, Granville MoMM2/c, Allen PhM1/c, Nichols SK3/c, Burford EM2/c, Pitt GM3/c.
Fourth row: Lyman QM3/c, McRae GM2/c, Collier S2/c, Blodgett SC2/c, Conloy SC2/c, Marrula F3/c, Weisgerber S2/c, Odell MM1/c, Cronk MM1/c, Cohen S2/c, Caverlee Y3/c.
Fifth row: McFerrin SoM2/c, Grillo S2/c, Polin S2/c, Putnam SM3/c, Hawk S2/c, Luevans SM3/c, Cross MM2/c, Cole F3/c, Tierney S2/c. Sixth row: Beth S2/c, Davis Matt2/c, Dietz-Coxswain, Digby BM2/c, Greene F1/c, Shepherd MM2/c, Dokin MM2/c, Gross S2/c, Welter SoM3/c, Haynes F1/c. Photo from the Vincent T. Hamlin Archives.
Margaret A. Howell
University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries
PC-592 130k c. 1948. New York Harbor. Naval Reserve duty. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for Towanda (PC 592) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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