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PC-793


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 April 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 22 May 1943; Commissioned USS PC-793, 10 May 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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 2,560 bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.
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PC-793 51k - William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret.
PC-793
PC-784 59k c. 1945, (right to left) PC-793, PC-784, PC-785, PC-781, and an unknown PC at Adak, Alaska. Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
via Allan M. Wilson

There is no DANFS history available for PC-793 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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