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Chadron (PC 564)



Call sign: November - Echo - November - Yankee


PC-564 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 25 January 1942 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Bronx, NY; Launched, 12 April 1942; Commissioned USS PC-564, 2 July 1942; PC-564 engaged German minesweepers M-412, M-432, M-442 and M-452, 8 March 1945 and nine smaller craft off Chaussey, France. On 9 March PC-564, outgunned and badly damaged, manages to outrun the German force and is grounded on the French coast at Pierre de Herpin light (15 men had prematurely abandoned ship, of which 14 were captured by the German raiding force). French fishing boats arrive to help the wounded and the next day, PC-564 is towed into St. Malo harbor. Decommissioned and laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Chadron (PC-564), 15 February 1956; Transferred to South Korea, 22 January 1964 at Guam and renamed Sol Ak (PC 709); Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 12 January 1974.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 59; 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832273 and 832274), two shafts.


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Size Image Description Source
PC-564 60k - Harley Stackhouse MoMM1/c
via E. J. Comeau, PC 553/1228
PC-564 30k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
PC-564 52k - Bob Daly/PC-1181
Zippo 72k Zippo lighter purchased at a flea market in Buffalo, NY. Lloyd W. Quiter

There is no DANFS history available for Chadron (PC-564)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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