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Larchmont (PC 487)



Call sign: November - Bravo - Tango - Alpha


Larchmont served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 December 1941 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York, NY; Launched, 28 February 1942; Commissioned USS PC-487, 2 June 1942. Damaged when she intentionally rammed and sank the Japanese submarine I-24, 10 June 1943, 40 miles north, north-east of Shemua Island, Aleutians, AK. Decommissioned, 24 July 1947, at Portsmouth, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Renamed USS Larchmont (PC 487), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Transferred to the Venezuelan Navy in 1960. Fate unknown. Larchmont earned one battle star for World War II service. (Note: Among the medals awarded her crew were the Navy Cross, three Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit and a Navy Citation).

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, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832239 and 832240), two shafts.


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PC-487 86k Launching of PC-487 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York, NY.
AP Wirephoto.
James C. Pressley QM2/c PC-1226
via E. J. Comeau, PC 553/1228
PC-487 46k Crew members paint on their first victory of an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Hyperwar. U. S. Navy in WWII

View the Larchmont (PC-487)
DANFS History Entry
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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