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PC-627

Call sign: November - Whiskey - Mike - Juliet

PC-627 served the Navies of the United States and Free France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 5 June 1942 by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-627, 6 November 1942; Decommissioned, 28 October 1944 and transferred to the Free French at Toulon, France; Renamed Cavalier (W 122); Redesignated W-19; Struck from the Naval Register, 27 June 1951. 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7793 and 7798), two shafts.
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-627 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
A "Short" History of
PC-627
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793
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