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PC-612

Call sign: November - Uniform - Xray - Kilo
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 June 1942 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-612, 1 May 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 25 March 1948 and sold to W. B. Fountan, Norfolk, VA. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6827 and 6828), two shafts.
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c. 1943 U. S. Navy Photo |
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-612 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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