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PC-465 Paragould

Call sign: November - Alpha - Quebec - November

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 19 August 1942 by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA; Launched, 28 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-465, 25 May 1942 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA; Placed out-of-commission-in-reserve in 1946 at Green Cove Springs, FL; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL; Renamed USS Paragould (PC-465), 15 January 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Transferred to Venezuela April 1961, and renamed Pulpo (P-7); Placed in reserve, 1968; Deleted from Venezuelan Naval list, 1978. 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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial # 832269 and 832270).

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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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