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PC / PCC-466 Carmi


Call sign: November - Alpha - Tango - Kilo

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1 September 1941 by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA; Launched, 29 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-466, 3 June 1942; Reclassified PCC-466, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, 1 March 1947 and laid up at the Columbia River Group; Reclassified PC-466, 27 October 1955; Renamed USS Carmi (PC-466), 1 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). Sold for scrap, 1960.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 # 832271 and 832272), twin screws.

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Carmi 43k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Carmi 19k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Carmi 42k Print in Russian book about Russian subchasers 122 class
for comparison.
c. 1944
Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
Carmi 63k Print in Russian book about Russian subchasers 122 class
for comparison.
c. 1944
Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
Carmi 35k Print in Russian book about Russian subchasers 122 class
for comparison.
c. 1944
Waldemar Kaczmarczyk

There is no DANFS History currently available for Carmi (PC-466) at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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