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PC-617 Beeville

Call sign: November - Uniform - Yankee - Sierra
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 March 1942 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, MA; Launched, 18 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-617, 28 August 1942; Renamed USS Beeville (PC-617), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1957. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 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. 832369 and 832370), two shafts.
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c. 1945. Off Normandy, France |
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There is no DANFS history available for Beeville (PC 617) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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