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PC-626



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Mike - Delta


PC-626 served the Navies of the United States and France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 June 1942 by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co., Jeffersonville, IN; Launched, 18 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-626, 26 October 1942. Assigned to the European theater and took part in the following operations: Sicilian occupation, 9 - 15 July 1943; Anzio-Nettuno Advanced landings, 22 - 30 January, 1 - 5 February, and 10 - 29 February 1944; and the Invasion of Southern France, 15 August - 25 September 1944. PC-626 assisted the PC-558 in sinking a German one-man submarine 9 May 1944, off the coast of Salerno, Sicily. Decommissioned, 11 November 1944 and transferred to the Free French at Toulon, France as Lansquenet (W 121); Struck from the Naval Register, 22 September 1958; Scrapped in 1959.

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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7779 & 7780), two shafts.


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PC-626 168k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
Carolyn Cardwell
PC-626 161k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 129k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 135k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 178k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 197k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 199k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 217k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 194k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 159k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 185k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 149k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 202k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
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PC-626 187k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
Carolyn Cardwell
PC-626 178k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
Carolyn Cardwell
PC-626 164k 18 August 1942.
Launch day for PC-626 at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machinery Co.
Carolyn Cardwell

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