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PC-591



Call sign: November - Alpha - Hotel - Lima



PC-591 served the Navies of the United States and France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 May 1942 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 2 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-591, 26 October 1942; Decommissioned, 17 October 1944 and transferred to France at Toulon, France; Renamed Spahi (W 123); Struck from the Naval Register, 16 December 1959. Fate unknown.

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 (Starboard engine Serial No. 10844, port engine unknown), two shafts.

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PC-591 52k October 1942. Sea trials at Sturgeon Bay. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-591 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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