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PC-797



Call sign: November - Xray - Juliet - Quebec



PC-797 served the Navies of the United States and France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 July 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 21 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-797, 5 July 1944; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to France, 1950 and renamed Hue; Struck from the Naval Register, 12 February 1955. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7343 and 7344), two shafts.
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PC-797 69k - Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-797 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, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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