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PC-561


PC-561 served the Navies of the United States and Brazil.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 January 1942 at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 1 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-561, 11 July 1942; Decommissioned, 30 November 1943, transferred to Brazil as Grauna; Returned to U.S. custody 19 April 1950; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Turned over to the State Department for disposal. 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6349 and 6350), two shafts.


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PC-561 45k - Bob Daly/PC-1181

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