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PC-471



Call sign: November - Alpha - November - Juliet


PC-471 served both the United States and French Navies.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 21 April 1941 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI; Launched, 15 September 1941; Commissioned USS PC-471, 3 November 1942; During World War II, PC-471 was the first PC to enter service and was assigned to the East Coast, Moroccan Sea Frontier, Mediterranean and Eastern Sea Frontier, performing convoy and patrol duty. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to France, 9 June 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed L'Eveille (W 31); Decommissioned in French Navy, 5 December 1959. Fate unknown.

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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial # 5702 and 5703).

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PC-471 86k c. Summer 1941. Builders trials, Lake Michigan Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-471 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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