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PC / PCC-803



Call sign: November - Yankee - Charlie - Uniform



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 16 August 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 2 October 1943; Commissioned USS PC-803, 23 January 1945; Reclassified an Amphibious Control Vessel PCC-803, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 285 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7717 and 7718), two shafts.

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PC-803 76k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-803 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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