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PC-548



Call sign: November - Bravo - Quebec - Oscar

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 April 1942 by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI; Launched, 29 May 1942 at New Orleans, LA; Commissioned USS PC-548, 2 August 1942 at Algeirs Naval Station, New Orleans, LA. PC-548 was assigned to the Atlantic and Asiatic-Pacific theaters. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). After the war, PC-548 was stripped at San Pedro, CA towed back to the Marshall Islands and sunk in the Atomic Bomb tests at Eniwetok Atoll.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 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 (added one 20 mm on flying bridge, October 1942), two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7209 and 7210), two screws.


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PC-548 66k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-548 66k Loading depth charges Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-548 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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