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PC-451



Call sign: November - Echo - Victor - Sierra

PC-451 class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 28 September 1939 by the DeFoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI as Hull #166, under the Experimental Small Craft program of 17 May 1938. Called X-Boats, they differed in detail and were listed as 165 footers; Launched, 23 May 1940; Commissioned 12 August 1940. Assigned to the American theater of war on the east coast. Decommissioned, 2 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in January 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement, 348 t.; Length, 163'; Beam, 21' 6"; Trial speed, 21.8 kts; Complement, unknown; Propulsion, two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial #5584 and 5585), two General Motors 6-233A diesel engines with two 75 kw generator sets (Serial #5586 and 5587); Armament, unknown.


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PC-451 71k . Dan Treadwell
PC-451 202k c. 1939-1940 -
PC-451 70k US Navy Photo from a Post Card William Schaff
PC-451 102k c. 1943 Key West FL. E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-451 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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