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PC-568 Altus



Call sign: November - Echo - Xray - Yankee - Kilo


Altus served both the U. S. Navy and Air Force.


Altus served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 15 September 1941 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 25 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-568, 13 July 1942 at Houston, TX; Decommissioned, 30 April 1946 at Mayport, FL; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, St James River, Green Cove Springs, FL; Renamed USS Altus (PC-568), 15 February 1956; Loaned to the Air Force 1960; Struck from the Naval Register, 15 March 1963 and transferred permanently to the U. S. Air Force; Transferred to the Philippines, 2 March 1968 and renamed Nueva Viscaya (PS 80); Converted to a Fast Attack Craft, 1988; Decommissioned , 23 June 1990; Sank during a typhoon at Cebu, Philippines, 10 March 1993; Sold as scrap to Calixto Enterprises, Philippines.

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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832267 and 832268), two shafts.

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PC-568 38k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-568 30k Aground in the Gulf de Saint-Malo off Grandville, France. c. 1945 Bob Daly/PC-1181

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