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PC / PCC-462



Call sign: November - Alpha - Golf - Juliet

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 22 July 1941 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, Massachusetts; Launched, 24 January 1942; Commissioned USS PC-462, 15 April 1942; Reclassified an Amphibious Control Vessel, PCC-462, 20 August 1945; Returned to San Francisco, October 1945; Decommissioned, 16 December 1945 at Mare Island, CA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 20 February 1947; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown. PC-462 earned two battle stars for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions during World War II.

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 # 832233 and 832234).

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PC-462 32k Launching, 24 January 1942. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-462 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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