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Kerrville (PC-597)
ex-PC-597



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Oscar - Whiskey
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 9 May 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon
  • Launched 7 September 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-597, 15 February 1943
  • Decommissioned 30 April 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group
    Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as January 1947
  • Named Kerrville 15 February 1956
  • Struck from the Navy Register 5 September 1957
  • Sold for scrap to Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore, Maryland

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 450 t.
  • 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7807 and 7810), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    PC-597 78k Bureau of Ships photo Edib Krlicbegovic
    PC-597 70k 17 February 1943 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Louis Legrand Thurber, USNR15 February 1943
    02LTJG W. M. Jones, USNR1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Joe Radigan
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