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PC-616

Call sign: November - Uniform - Yankee - Kilo

PC-616 served the Navies of the United States and Thailand.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 February 1942 by George Lawley and Sons, Inc., Neponset, MA; Launched, 4 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-616, 19 August 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to Thailand, 1952 and renamed Tongpliu (PC 6); Disposed of in 1993. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832362 and 832365), two shafts.
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-616 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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