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PC-488
Eureka (IX 221)



Call sign: November - Bravo - Romeo - Juliet


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 March 1941 by the Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 20 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-488, 12 August 1942 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Reclassified as Miscellaneous Unclassified and named Eureka (IX 221), 25 April 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 13 March 1946. 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, and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.

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PC-488 55k National Archives Photo Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-488 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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