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PC-472



Call sign: November - Alpha - Romeo - Mike


PC-472 has served in both the United States and French Navies.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1 July 1941 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan; Launched, 14 November 1941; Commissioned USS PC-472, 9 December 1941. During World War II, PC-472 was assigned to the European theater of operations in the Moroccan Sea Frontier and Mediterranean. Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the French under Lend-Lease Plan 30 June 1944 at Casablanca, Morocco and renamed Le Ruse (W 41); Struck from the Naval Register, 21 July 1959 and sold for scrap.

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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial # 5704 and 5705), two screws.

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PC-472 43k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
PC-472 70k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-472 91k 31 August 1942. Norfolk, VA Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-472 151k 31 August 1942, off Hampton Roads VA
US Navy Photo NH 96481
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-472 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
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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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