The PC-461-class submarine chasers were a class of 341 submarine chasers constructed between 1941 and 1944 for the United States Navy. The PC-461s were based primarily on two experimental submarine ch
PC-461-class submarine chaser USS PC-815 in April 1943
USS PC-598 tied up at Humboldt Bay in New Guinea in October 1944, during preparations for the invasion of Leyte in the Philippines. A pair of Mousetrap anti-submarine weapons can be seen on her bow.
General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore at Red Beach on 20 October 1944 on the first day of the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. USS PC-598 performed maritime traffic control duties as an amphibious landing control craft off Red Beach that day.
A salvo of rocket-propelled bombs is launched by a pair of Mousetrap anti-submarine weapons mounted on the bow of the Brazilian Navy PC-461-class submarine chaser Guajará during an exercise.
German submarine U-166 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 6 December 1940 at the Seebeckwerft at Wesermünde as yard number 705, la
PC-461-class submarine chaser
…class actually sank a submarine. On 30 July 1942, USS PC-566 commanded by Lieutenant Commander (later Captain) Herbert G. Claudius attacked and sank U-166 in the Gulf of Mexico, after the U-boat had torpedoed and sunk the passenger ship SS Robert E. Lee, which was carrying survivors of other ships sunk…
3.7cm anti-aircraft gun of the sunken U-166