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PTC-62

PTC-1 Class Motorboat Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down in 1943 as PTC-62 by Trumpy and Sons, Gloucester City, NJ
  • Reclassified as a Small Boat in August 1943
  • Completed 5 February 1944
  • Reclassified RPC-76
  • Transferred to the Soviet Union in June 1944 and reclassified SK-522
  • Reclassified CK-522
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 23 t.
  • Length 63'
  • Beam 15' 3"
  • Draft 3' 10"
  • Speed 30 kts.
  • Complement 10
  • Armament: One 20mm mount and two twin .50 cal. machine guns and eight depth charges
  • Propulsion: Two 650shp Hall-Scott Defender gasoline engines, two shafts.
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    PTC-62 352k Photo from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman Robert Hurst
    PTC-62 326k The main ASW battery consists entirely of side-dropped depth-charge. Note covered 20mm gun amidships, and the two covered mg mounts port and starboardPhoto from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman
    There is no DANFS history available for PTC-62
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