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A secondary group of arms were anti-aircraft. Patrol craft were designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and mine sweeping and the armament reflected this. This is a 3'/50 caliber gun mount on an unidentified patrol craft. Consequently, the PCs were continuously plagued by a shortage of drinking water. Because of the violent pitching, the distillation plants of the PCs rarely worked. Class 461 Patrol Craft were designed to get most of their drinking water from an onboard distillation plant. In such a case, the PC's preferred tactic was to charge the submarine to ram it, before the submarine could bring its superior gun to bear.

The PCs were a match for the enemy submarines when the submarines were submerged but the PCs were clearly outgunned in a surface battle.

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This PC class was considered seaworthy but bounced around on the water like no other craft.

Navy usually did not provide traditional names to PCs the name of this ship was PC-552. The class 461 was designed for rapid production in large numbers, to be effective anti- submarine vessels, and to relieve larger vessels from convoy duty. The first of the class to enter service was the PC-471. This class was called Class 461 because the first one built was PC-461, which began the series. Class 461 Patrol Craft were built mainly for the US Navy from 1941 to 1944. Most sailors referred to the PCs as the 'Donald Duck Navy.'. long, had crews of 60 sailors and five officers, and were originally built for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), convoy escort duty, and coastal patrols.

7.3.1 The trans Atlantic crossing to England.

PC-552 arrived at Key West, Florida on 22 June 1945 and was decommissioned at Charleston, South Carolina on 18 April 1946. PC-552 remained in European waters until 6 June 1945, where after a ceremony commemorating the events of the previous year on that date, a convoy of PCs departed for the Atlantic crossing. The PC was diverted into this effort for forty-five minutes and ultimately only five tanks, the two that survived the launch disaster and three that were aboard LCT-600 whose commander raised his ramp when the first off foundered and instead landed them on the beach, reached the beach. PC-552, primary control vessel for Fox Green sector of the beach, was forced into rescue efforts and recovery of bodies at the departure line for Fox Green when the Duplex Drive tanks that survived the initial disastrous launch were swamped at the line with only two surviving. PC-552 was among the first ships to reach waters off Omaha Beach. It served as convoy protection in the North Atlantic and as one of about ten PC control vessels off Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion. USS PC-552 was a class-461 patrol craft ('PC') that was at the forefront of the naval efforts during the Normandy invasion.

1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal dual purpose gunīattle of the Atlantic, Battle of Normandy.

Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear.

Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation (Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.)Ħ December 1946 to Maritime Commission, predecessor to MARAD.

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