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PC-473

Call sign: November - Alpha - Lima - Delta

PC-473 has served in both the United States and French Navies.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 18 August 1941 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan; Launched, 19 November 1941; Commissioned USS PC-473, 9 December 1941. Departed Bay City, MI on 9 December 1941, passed through the Great Lakes into the St. Lawrence River and arrived at Boston, MA, 5 January 1942. PC-473 and two other PCs were the only PCs ever to use this route, all others used the Mississippi River. During World War II, PC-473 was assigned to the European theater of operations in the Moroccan Sea Frontier and Mediterranean. Decommissioned and transferred to the French Navy, 7 July 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed L'Ardent (W 39); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Collided with the SS Empire Abbey, 15 February 1945 in Cora Harbor, sank in 18 feet of water and broke in half; Stern section blew up, 20 February 1945. Salvage impossible.
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, two screws.
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10 November 1941. Resting on hydraulic launching dock. Great Lakes Institute Archives. |
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-473 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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