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PC-788


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 18 January 1943 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 5 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-788, 15 February 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.


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RB-99DA Engine 78/61k Right side view of Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA main propulsion diesel engine Bob Daly/PC-1181
RB-99DA Engine 78/61k Left side view of Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA main propulsion
diesel engine
Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-788 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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