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PC-577



Call sign: November - Uniform - Lima - Hotel


PC-577 served both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Army.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 May 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Wilmington, DE; Launched, 25 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-577, 15 October 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred, 21 December 1945 to the Chemical Warfare Center, Edgewood Arsenal, VA for use by the U. S. Army; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Sunk, 12 November 1948 between Norfolk, VA and Bermuda due to high contamination from chemical tests.

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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6684 and 6685), two shafts.
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PC-577 138k - Steve Kollar
PC-577 53k - Steve Koller
577 Crew 98k Front row: (3rd, 4th, and 5th from left) MoMMC Bruce, Bernie Dierocki, PO Cox
Back row: SM3/c Elmer Fisher (3rd from left), S1/c Art Knauser (2nd from right).
Steve Koller

There is no DANFS history available for PC-577 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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