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Dalhart (PC 619)



Call sign: November - Uniform - Zulu - Bravo



Dalhart served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 April 1942 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, MA; Launched, 15 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-619, 16 September 1942; Decommissioned, 1948; Renamed Dalhart (PC 619), 15 February 1956; Transferred to Venezuela, 1956 and renamed Gaviota (P 10); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Placed in reserve, 1968/70; Gaviota was struck, 1978/79. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 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 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832375 and 832376), two shafts.
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PC-619 60k Dry Docked. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-619 60k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for Dalhart (PC 619) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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