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PC-483 Rolla



Call sign: November - Bravo - Papa - Delta


Rolla served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 31 December 1940 by the Consolidated Ship Builders Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 25 October 1941; Commissioned USS PC-483, 12 March 1942; Joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, 6 April 1946 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Decommissioned, 18 June 1946; Renamed USS Rolla (PC-483), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Transferred to Venezuela, October 1960 and renamed Camaron (P 08); Placed in reserve, 1968; Struck from the Venezuelan Naval Register, 1978. 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 Fairbanks Morse 38 D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial # 832095 and 832096), two shafts.

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PC-483 100k National Archives.
USN Photo 80-G-14659
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-483 Crew 90k Crew of the PC-483 The family of Paul H. Welton
via Steve Wiltsie
Crew Names 156k Crew names from back of photo. The family of Paul H. Welton
via Steve Wiltsie

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793


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