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PC/PCC-555



Call sign: November - Bravo - Xray - Romeo



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 13 February 1942 at the Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 30 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-555, 6 February 1943 at the New York Navy Yard; Reclassified as an Amphibious Control Vessel PCC-555, 1944; Decommissioned, 20 May 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 450 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7813 and 7814), two shafts.
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PC-555 165k 30 May 1942, Launching, Sullivan Dry Dock
and Repair Co. Brooklyn, NY
E. J. Comeau, PC 553/1228
PC-555 32k 17 October 1945. Getting underway from Inchon, Korea. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-555 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

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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