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Malone (PC 553)
ex-PC-553

Call sign:
November - Bravo - Victor - Zulu

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 20 December 1941 at Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY

Launched 30 May 1942

Commissioned USS PC-553, 12 October 1942 at New York Navy Yard

Decommissioned 9 July 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet

Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as January 1947

Named Malone 1 February 1956

Struck from the Navy Register 5 September 1957

Sold for scrap 1 July 1958 to the Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore, Maryland.

Specifications:

Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)

Length 173' 8"

Beam 23'

Draft 10' 10"

Speed 20.2 kts.

Complement 65

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7769 and 7770), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
177k	Keel laying of PC-553. Ship decorated with bunting is probably the PC-552.	Bob Daly/PC-1181
165k	30 May 1942 Launching, Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co, Brooklyn, NY along with PC-555	E. J. Comeau PC 553/1228 Crewmember PC-553 12 October 1942 to 15 September 1943
90k	-
91k	-
32k	Builders sea trials
140k	Wheelhouse of PC-553	Waldemar Kaczmarczyk
51k	Line drawing - starboard side
120k	Line drawing - overhead view
504k	Line drawing - bow and stern views
751k	Camouflaged line drawing - starboard side view
708k	Camouflaged line drawing - port side view
203k		Gary Neidhardt