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PC-496

Sunk 4 June 1943

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 April 1941 by the Leathem D. Smith Coal and Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 22 November 1941; Commissioned USS PC-496, 26 February 1942 at New Orleans, LA. During World War II, PC-496 was assigned to the Caribbean Sea Frontier and the European theater of operations. Torpeoded and sunk by an Italian submarine 4 June 1943 off Bizerte, Tunisia.

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, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-496 62k . Lorraine Welter-Kreutzer
(whose Uncle lost his life when PC-496 sank.

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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-496 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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