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PC-566 Honesdale



Call sign: November - Echo - Quebec - Indiao



Honesdale served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 August 1941 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston TX; Launched, 21 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-566, 15 June 1942; Decommissioned, 8 January 1947 at Norfolk, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk, VA; Renamed USS Honesdale (PC-566), 1 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold to Venezuela, June 1961 and renamed Calamar (P 02); Struck from Venezuelan Naval Registry, 1978. 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D 8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832235 and 832236), two shafts.

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Honesdale 50k . The Ted Stone Collection
Mariners' Museum,
Newport News, VA

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DANFS History entry located on 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

The Sinking of U-166 by PC-566
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