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PC-470 Antigo



Call sign: November - Alpha - Papa - Oscar

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 February 1942 by George Lawley & Sons, Inc., Neoponset, MA; Launched, 27 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-470, 31 July 1942; Decommissioned, March 1946 at Portland, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Antigo (PC-470), 15 January 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1960; Fate unknown. Antigo earned two battle stars for World War II service.

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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial # 832281 and 832282).

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