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PC-490



Call sign: November - Bravo - Whiskey - Delta



PC-490 served the Navies of the United States and China.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 May 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 18 October 1941; Commissioned USS PC-490, 12 May 1942; Decommissioned, 27 August 1948 and transferred to Taiwan; Renamed Wu Sung; Struck from the Naval Register, 1951. Scrapped by Taiwan, 1952.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines (Serial No. 6660 and 6661), two shafts.

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PC-490 111k Launching- Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-490 43k - Original photo by Lannie G. Walker SM3, crewmember PC-476.
Replacement photo by Bob Daly/PC-1181.

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-490 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793


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