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PC-494

Call sign: November - Foxtrot - Alpha - Tango
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 August 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 24 January 1942; Commissioned USS PC-494, 23 May 1942; Decommissioned, 15 January 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 11 February 1948 and sold to Ty Engan; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines (Serial No. 6668 and 6669), two shafts.
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