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Allied Warships

USS PC-469 (PC-469)

Patrol craft of the PC-461 class

NavyThe US Navy
TypePatrol craft
ClassPC-461 
PennantPC-469 
Built byGeorge Lawley & Sons Inc. (Neponset, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down30 Jan, 1942 
Launched10 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned13 Jul, 1942 
End serviceJun, 1946 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned in June 1946 

Noteable events involving PC-469 include:

5 Oct, 1942
USS PC-469 picks up 29 survivors from the American merchant Caribstar that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-175 off the Orinoco River, British Guyana in position 08º30'N, 59º37'W.


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