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PC-552



Call sign: November - Bravo - Uniform - Yankee


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 May 1941 by the Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 13 February 1942; Commissioned USS PC-552, 28 July 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Turned over to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 5 December 1946; 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6327 & 6328), two shafts.
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PC-552 52k c. 1944 Original photo from the "The Patriot Ledger", Quincy, Massachusetts. January 1945. Courtesy E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228. Replacement photo courtesy of Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-552 Crew 119k Crew of the PC-552 Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-552 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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