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PC-1562



PC-1562 call sign:
November - India - Victor - Echo



PC-1562 transferred to the Free French on commissioning.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 January 1944 by the Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 4 March 1944; Directly commissioned into the Free French Navy as Javelot (W 23), 8 June 1944; Javelot was stricken and scrapped, 31 May 1951.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14276 & 14277), two shafts.

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PC-1562 83k Launching.
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Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1563 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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