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-1225 Waverly



Call sign: November - Charlie - Golf - Hotel



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 10 June 1942 by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1225, 12 January 1943 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, 18 July 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Waverly (PC-1225), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold for scrapping to F & A Transportation of New Jersey, 1 July 1958. PC-1225 earned one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; 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 No. 7801 & 7802), two shafts.
Click On Image
For Full Size Image
Size Image Description Source
PC-1225/1226 83k Double launching of PC-1226 and PC-1225. Labor Day, 7 September 1942. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1225 58k Builders Sea Trials
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
Waverly 127k - E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228

View the Waverly (PC-1225)
DANFS History entry located on 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
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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

Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster

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