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PC-1563


PC-1563 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 4 February 1944 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 24 March 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1563, 29 June 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Philippines, 15 May 1945 and renamed Negros Oriental (C 26); Sunk by typhoon Karen alongside the South Korean ROK Han Ra San (PC-705) ex-PC-485 at Guam, November 1962; Raised and decommissioned, 26 June 1963 and sold
for scrap.

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 (K-guns), two depth charge tracks, two depth charge projectors (mousetrap); Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines,
two shafts.


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PC-1563 51k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1563 126k At San Fernando, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines. Ed Clarke
PC-1563 80k Alongside an unidentified PC at Subic Bay, Philippines Ed Clarke
PC-1563 93k Alongside an unidentified PC at Subic Bay, Philippines Ed Clarke
PC-1563 180k In dry dock, Subic Bay, Philippines Ed Clarke

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1563 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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