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PC-491



Call sign: November - Bravo - Xray - Juliet



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 May 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 6 December 1941; Commissioned USS PC-491, 13 April 1942 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 13 February 1948 and sold to T. Y. Fong; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Departed Subic Bay Naval Base, 10 September 1949. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 diesel engines (Serial No. 6662 and 6663), two shafts.

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PC-491 87k In dry dock - probably Trinidad. c. 1944. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-491 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

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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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