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PC-482

Call sign: November - Bravo - Oscar - Foxtrot

PC-482 served the Navies of the United States and France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 16 February 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan; Launched, 9 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-482, 30 April 1942. During World War II, PC-480 was assigned to the European theater of operations. Decommissioned and transferred to the French Navy, 15 July 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed L'Enjoue (W 44); Sunk off Cape Spartel near the Straits of Gibraltar, 9 January 1945 by the German submarine U-870.
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 (added one 20 mm on flying bridge, October 1942), two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, two screws.
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c. 1942. Somewhere in the Caribbean. Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen |
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-482 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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