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Tooele (PC 572)



Call sign: November - India - Bravo - Uniform



PC-492 served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 September 1941 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 23 February 1942; Commissioned USS PC-572, 19 June 1942. On 2 December 1942 the SS Trevalgan, a 5,299 ton freighter was torpeoded by the German U-508 in the Atlantic, southeast of Trinidad at position 09° 40' N., 59° 15'W. while sailing independently from Suez to New York via Cape Town, South Africa and Trinidad. PC-572 rescued the Master, the crew of 33 and nine gunners, and landed them at Trinidad 3 December 1942. Renamed USS Tooele (PC-572), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 9 February 1959 at Green Cove Springs, Fla,; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold to Venezuela in October 1960. Tooele was never refitted, but used for spare parts and later scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount (3"/50 mount replaced by a trainable Mk 15 Hedgehog morter, date unknown), one single 40mm gun mount (40 mm mount and tub removed, date unknown); three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D 8 1/8 diesel engines, (Serial No. 832265 and 832266), two shafts.

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Albina Works 504k 28 April 1942. Albina Engine & Machinery Works. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Ships identified by George Murray
PC-572 37k Post WWII photo. Note that the 3"/50 and 40 mm
mounts removed, 3"/50 replaced by Mk 15 hedgehog.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-572 44k National Archives photo 80-G-443973. Dan Dunham

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