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Galena (PC 1136)
ex-PCC-1136
ex-PC-1136
PC-553 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 December 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 5 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1136, 16 November 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-1136, 27 October 1945; Decommissioned 28 July 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, Oregon; Reclassified back to a Submarine Chaser, PC-1136, 27 October 1955; Named Galena 15 February 1956; Sold 11 March 1960 to Miami Ports Co. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 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 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines. two shafts.
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Looking aft at the 40 mm mount. |
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Battle flag flown during the invasion of Guam. |
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View the Galena (PC-1136)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
View the PC-1136 Log Book
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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793
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