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PC-489



Call sign: November - Bravo - Victor - Lima


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 March 1941 by the Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 20 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-489, 14 July 1942 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Decommissioned, 21 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal and sold for scrap, 5 November 1948 to W. B. Fpuntain, Ingleside, VA.

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, and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6674 and 6675), two shafts.

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PC-489 94k Launching Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-489 54k New York Navy Yard, 18 July 1942.
Sullivan Dry Dock Co. Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-489 67k . Phil Wagner
PC-489 103k In dry dock. Phil Wagner
PC-489 90k In dry dock. Phil Wagner
PC-489 157k Looking down at the bows. Phil Wagner
PC-489 113k Looking down at the bridge. Phil Wagner
PC-489 169k Looking down at the stern. Phil Wagner
Convoy 91k Escorting convoy. Phil Wagner
Convoy 38k Escorting convoy. Phil Wagner
Blimp 91k Blimp escorting convoy. Phil Wagner
Blimp 88k Blimp escorting convoy. Phil Wagner
Depth Charge 58k Firing depth charge. Phil Wagner
Depth Charge 117k Depth charge attack. Phil Wagner
Depth Charge 61k Depth charge attack. Phil Wagner
Depth Charge 110k Depth charge attack. Phil Wagner
Deck Gun 104k Manning the 3"/50 deck gun. Phil Wagner

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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-489 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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