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PC-565 Gilmer


Gilmer served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 August 1941 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 27 February 1942; Commissioned USS PC-565, 25 April 1942; Decommissioned, 26 April 1946 at Green Cove, Fla; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Named Gilmer, 15 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register and sold to Venezuela. 1 July 1960; Renamed Alcatras (P 03). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 No. 832229 and 832230), two shafts.
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PC-565 49k - Original photo from Patrick Ward via E. J. Comeau, PC 553/1228.
Replacement photo from CAPT Jerry Mason, USN U-Boat Archive
PC-565 37k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-565 83k Bridge Watch. c. 1943. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-565 75k Photo Caption: PC-565 with crossed-out swastika. A 170-foot United States Patrol Chaser destroyed a German U-boat so swiftly in the Atlantic recently that the underseas craft did'nt have a chance to fight back. PC-565 was guarding a convoy when her sound apparatus picked up the hum of a sub's motors. Depth charges brought the raider to the surface, eventually sank her.
Official U. S. Navy Photograph.
October 1943 issue of "All Hands" magazine
Ancon 17k Off the coast of Normandy, 7 June 1944. USS Ancon (AGC 10) in background
US Navy photo 80-N-257287
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,
Vol. 1, pg. 283

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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, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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