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PC-597 Kerrville



Call sign: November - Alpha - Oscar - Whiskey



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 May 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-597, 15 February 1943; Decommissioned, 30 April 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Renamed USS Kerrville (PC-597), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore Md.

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 rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No, 7807 and 7810), two shafts.

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PC-597 70k 17 February 1943. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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