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PC-461 Bluffton

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser. Courtesy of William J. Veigele

Call sign: November - Alpha - Delta - Mike
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Lead ship of the PC-461 Class Submarine Chasers; Laid down, 10 July 1941 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, Massachusetts; Launched, 23 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-461, 19 March 1942; Decommissioned (date unknown); Laid up in the Reserve Fleet, November 1951; Renamed USS Bluffton (PC-461), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1958; Sold, 5 August 1958 to the Ships and Power Corp. for $72,000.00. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 348 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2 kts; Complement six 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial # 832219 and 832220).
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-461 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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by William J. Veigele Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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