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PC-625



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Mike - Alpha



PC-625 served the Navies of the United States and Free France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 2 May 1942 by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 22 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-625, 25 September 1942; Decommissioned, 16 October 1944 and transferred to the Free French at Toulon, France; Renamed Grenadier; Struck from the Naval Register, 2 January 1958. 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. 7775 and 7776), two shafts.
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PC-625 71k Launching day. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-625 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.


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