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Bethany (PC 620)



Call sign: November - Uniform - Zulu - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 February 1942 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 12 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-620, 8 January 1943; Renamed USS Bethany (PC 620), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, January 1947; Struck from the Naval Register, 1957; Sold for scrap to Boston Metals, Baltimore, MD (date 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7799 and 7800), two shafts.
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PC-620 66k . Bob Daly/PC-1811

There is no DANFS history available for Bethany (PC 620) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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