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PC/PCC-563



Call sign: November - Echo - Mike - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 December 1941 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Bronx, NY; Launched, 17 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-563, 17 June 1942. During World War II, PC-563 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and took part in the following operations: Leyte landings, 28 October - 18 November 1944; and the Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April - 20 May 1945. Reclassified an Amphibious Control Vessel, PCC-563, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 29 November 1946 to the Foss Tug and Barge Co., Tacoma, WA for possible salvage of main engines; Registered in 1948 to the Martinolich Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA as the M/V Doris Neu. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; 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. 832263 and 832264), two shafts.

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PC-563 65k - Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC/PCC-563 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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