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PC-610



Call sign: November - Uniform - Xray - Bravo

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 February 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 19 June 1942; Commissioned USS PC-610, 28 September 1942; Decommissioned in December 1945; Recommissioned, (date unknown) and used as a Reserve training vessel at Newport, RI; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Beached and abandoned, 7 June 1950 on Hens and Chickens Reef, Rhode Island Sound for use as a bombing target. Hull destroyed.

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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6817 and 6818), two shafts.


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PC-610 76k Somewhere in the Pacific. Sheila Rawlins
PC-610 82k Somewhere in the Pacific. Sheila Rawlins
PC-610 78k Somewhere in the Pacific. Sheila Rawlins
PC-610 67k Somewhere in the Pacific. Sheila Rawlins
PC-610 111k Alongside PC-780 at Newport, RI
US Navy Photo from the June 1947 issue of "All Hands" magazine.
Joe Radigan

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