Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.


NavSource Online:
Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

PC-474



Call sign: November - Alpha - Delta - Whiskey


PC-474 has served in both the United States and French Navies.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 August 1941 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan; Launched, 15 September 1941; Commissioned USS PC-474, 11 February 1942 at Algiers Naval Station, New Orleans, LA. During World War II, PC-474 was assigned to the European theater of operations in the Moroccan and Eastern Sea Frontiers. Decommissioned and transferred to the French Navy, 1 June 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed L'Indiscret
(W 32)
; Leased for mercantile trade in the 1950s. Struck from the Naval Register, 25 January 1960. Fate unknown.

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 (Serial # 6315 and 6316), two shafts.

Click On Image
For Full Size Image
Size Image Description Source
PC-474 52k c. Fall 1941. Defoe Shipbuilding Company. Bob Daly/PC-1181
L'Indiscret 106k Radio controlled PC model of L'Indiscret (W 32), built by Michel Lelievre of Saint Nazaire, France. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-474 21k US Navy Photo Maynard A. Altizer
for his father
David H. Altizer, S1/c, USS LST-817

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-474 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association

Back To The Main Photo Index Back To the Patrol Craft/Gunboat/Submarine Chaser Ship Type Index Back to the 173' Submarine Chaser (PC) Photo Index

Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster

This page created and maintained by Joseph M. Radigan
© 1996 - 2005 Joseph M. Radigan © 1996 - 2005 NavSource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.