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PC-798

PC-798 served the Navies of the United States and France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 July 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 14 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-798, 19 July 1944; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to France, 1949 and renamed Luang Prabang; Struck from the Naval Register, 4 May 1955. 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.
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