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Allied Warships

USS PC-624 (PC-624)

Patrol craft of the PC-461 class

NavyThe US Navy
TypePatrol craft
ClassPC-461 
PennantPC-624 
Built byJeffersonville Boat and Machine Co. (Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down19 Mar, 1942 
Launched4 Jul, 1942 
Commissioned29 Aug, 1942 
End service22 Nov, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryDamaged by grounding off Palermo, Sicily, Italy on 12 March 1944
Reclassified as Water Barge YW-120 on 30 June 1944
Transferred to France on 22 November 1944
Returned to the USN on 21 March 1949 

Noteable events involving PC-624 include:

11 Dec, 1942
USS PC-624 picks up 29 survivors from the British merchant Nigerian that was torpedoed and sunk on 9 December 1942 by the German submarine U-508 about 130 nautical miles south-east of Trinidad in position 09º17'N, 59º00'W.

30 Jul, 1943
The German submarine U-375 was sunk in the western Mediterranean north-west of Malta, in position 36º40'N, 12º28'E, by depth charges from the US submarine chaser USS PC-624.


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