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Tooele (PC 572)
ex-PC-572



Call sign:
November - India - Bravo - Uniform


PC-492 served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 27 September 1941 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, Oregon
  • Launched 23 February 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-572, 19 June 1942
  • On 2 December 1942 the SS Trevalgan, a 5,299 ton freighter was torpedoed by the German submarine U-508 in the Atlantic, southeast of Trinidad at position 09° 40' N., 59° 15'W. while sailing
    independently from Suez to New York via Cape Town, South Africa and Trinidad. PC-572 rescued the Master, the crew of 33 and nine gunners, and landed them at Trinidad 3 December 1942
  • Named Tooele 15 February 1956
  • Decommissioned 9 February 1959 at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1960
  • Sold to Venezuela in October 1960
  • Tooele was never refitted, but used for spare parts and later scrapped.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)
  • Length 173' 8"
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 10' 10"
  • Speed 20.2 kts.
  • Complement 65
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 832265 and 832266), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Albina Works 504k 28 April 1942
    Albina Engine & Machinery Works
    Ships identified by George Murray    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    PC-572 94k c. June 1943
    Dutch Harbor, AK
    National Archives photo 80-G-443973    		 Ric Hedman
    PC-572 37k Post WWII photo. Note that the 3"/50 and 40mm
    mounts removed, 3"/50 replaced by Mk 15 hedgehog    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    PC-572 44k Dan Dunham
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Arthur H. Middleton, USNR19 June 1942 - March 1943
    02LT Paul D. Rust, Jr., USNRMarch 1943 - 6 September 1943
    03LT Wilbur J. Sheehan, USNR6 September 1943 - June 1944
    04LT Robert Talbert Settle, USNRJune 1944 - 26 May 1945
    05LT Franklin Kneeland Fogg, USNR26 May 1945 - September 1945
    06LT George H. Kronenberg, USNRSeptember 1945 - December 1945
    07LT Nels Marion Nelson, USNRDecember 1945 - March 1946
    08LTJG John Augustine Wiegard, USNR/USN - USNA Class of 1946March 1946 - February 1947
    09LTJG Bernard Brown "Beetle" Forbes, Jr., USN - USNA Class of 1945
    Awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal - Retired as Vice Admiral    		February 1947 - August 1947
    10LT Joseph Charles Rock, USNAugust 1947
    11LT William Sherrod Guthrie, USN - USNA Class of 19491954
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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