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PC-542

Call sign: November - Bravo - Kilo - Zulu

PC-542 served the Navies of the United States and France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 26 February 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI; Launched, 20 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-542, 25 May 1942 at Algiers Naval Station, New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned and transferred to France, 3 September 1944 at Toulon, France; Renamed Tirailleur (W 102); Struck from the Naval Register, 2 January 1958. Scrapped.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6347 and 6348), two shafts.
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