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Malone (PC 553)



Call sign: November - Bravo - Victor - Zulu



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 December 1941 at Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 30 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-553, 12 October 1942 at New York Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 9 July 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Fla; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Malone (PC-553), 1 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1 July 1958 for scrapping at New York.

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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7769 and 7770), two shafts.

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PC-553 177k Keel laying of PC-553. Ship decorated with bunting is probably the PC-495. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-555 165k 30 May 1942, Launching, Sullivan Dry Dock
and Repair Co, Brooklyn, NY along with PC-555.
E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228
Crewmember PC-553
12 October 1942 to 15 September 1943
PC-553 32k Builders sea trials E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228
Crewmember PC-553
12 October 1942 to 15 September 1943
PC-553 90k - E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228
Crewmember PC-553
12 October 1942 to 15 September 1943
PC-553 91k - E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228
Crewmember PC-553
12 October 1942 to 15 September 1943
PC-553 140k Wheelhouse of PC-553 Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
PC-553 51k Line drawing - starboard side Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
PC-553 120k Line drawing - overhead view Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
PC-553 504k Line drawing - bow and stern views Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
PC-553 751k Camouflaged line drawing - starboard side view Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
PC-553 708k Camouflaged line drawing - port side view Waldemar Kaczmarczyk

View the Malone (PC-553)
DANFS History Entry
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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