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PC-593



Call sign: November - Alpha - Mike - Delta



PC-593 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 12 April 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburg, PA; Launched, 22 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-593, 26 December 1942 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, 23 May 1946 at Subic Bay, Phillipines; Transferred to the Republic of China, 27 August 1948; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6670 and 6671), two shafts.

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