PC-461-class submarine chaser
Class of submarine chasers, primarily for the US Navy
PC-461-class submarine chaser
The PC-461-class submarine chasers were a class of 341 submarine chasers constructed between 1941 and 1944 for the United States Navy (USN). The PC-461s were based primarily on two experimental submarine chasers, PC-451 and PC-452. While PC-461 began the series, the first of the class to enter service was PC-471. Fifty-nine PC-461s were converted to other types of patrol vessels. As part of the Lend-Lease program, 41 ships of the class were transferred to allies of the United States. In addition to the USN, six allied navies operated PC-461s during World War II. Postwar, another hundred PC-461s were transferred from the USN to various navies. World events and further transfers from these navies – some ships of the class served in three different navies and one served in four – resulted in another eighteen navies (two of them of adversaries of the US – the Cuban Revolutionary Navy and China's People's Liberation Army Navy) operating PC-461s, with one heavily modified vessel serving in the...
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