USS PC-457

USS PC-457
Career
Name: USS PC-457
Builder: Robert Jacob and Sons, City Island, New York
Launched: 1939
Acquired: 1940
Commissioned: 1941
Fate: Sunk in collision, 14 August 1941
General characteristics
Type: Submarine chaser
Displacement: 125 long tons (127 t)
Length: 106 ft 9 in (32.54 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Propulsion: Supercharged diesel engines, two shafts

USS PC-457 was a submarine chaser of the United States Navy before World War II.

The ship was built in 1939 as the yacht Trouper by Robert Jacob and Sons, City Island, New York for C. A. Tilt of Chicago, Illinois, the President of the Diamond T Motor Company.

Acquired by the Navy in 1940, the yacht was commissioned as USS PC-457 in 1941. She was sunk in a collision with the American freighter SS Norluna on 14 August 1941 near San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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