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PC / PCC-463



Call sign: November - Alpha - Juliet - Whiskey

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 10 August 1941 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, Massachusetts; Launched, 27 February 1942; Commissioned USS PC-463, 29 April 1942; Reclassified an Amphibious Control Vessel, PCC-463, 20 August 1945; Damage by grounding during Typhoon Louise, October 1945; Repaired at Yokosuks, Japan; Decommissioned, 1 March 1947 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Sunk as a target, 20 July 1953, approximately 75 miles north west of Key West, FL by USS Trutta (SS 421) using an experimental Mark 28 torpedo. PC-463 earned two battle stars for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa landings 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 # 832237 and 832238).

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PC-463 87k At SCTC, Miami, FL. c. April 1942
National Archives Photo 80-G-14658
Bob Daly/PC-1181


There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-463 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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