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PC-608

Call sign: November - Uniform - Whiskey - Mike

PC-608 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 January 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 16 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-608, 18 August 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 1 July 1948; Transferred to Mexico, 1952 and renamed Guardacosta (GC 31); Struck from the Naval Register, May 1964 and scrapped.
Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6811 and 6812), two shafts.
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-608 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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