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PC-816



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Victor - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 December 1942 by the Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 8 January 1943; Commissioned USS PC-816, 9 June 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); 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. 6987 and 6988), two shafts.
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PC-816 154k In builders dock the day before launching, 7 January 1943. .
PC-816 63k - E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228

There is no DANFS history available for PC-816 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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