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PC-603 Solvay



Call sign: November - Uniform - Tango - Quebec



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 May 1942 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 30 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-603, 1 October 1942; Decommissioned, 8 January 1947 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service, 1 February 1956 at Norfolk, VA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Renamed USS Solvay (PC-603), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Approved for disposal, 15 March 1961. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 450 t.; Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20.2k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines, two shafts.

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