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{|{{Infobox Ship Begin}} {{Infobox Ship Image |Ship image=[[Image:PC-603_Neah_Bay.jpg|300px|The bow of PC-603 under way at Neah Bay, Washington]] |Ship caption=USS PC-603 }} {{Infobox Ship Career |Hide header= |Ship country=US |Ship flag=[[Image:US_Navy_Jack_48_stars.png|48px]] |Ship name=PC-603 |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=[[9 May]] [[1942]] |Ship launched=[[30 June]] [[1942]] |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=[[1 October]] [[1942]] |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned=[[8 January]] [[1947]] |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed=USS Solvay, [[15 February]] [[1956]] |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck=[[1 July]] [[1960]] |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Unknown |Ship status= |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox Ship Characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type= |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=450 tons fully loaded |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length={{convert|173|ft|m|abbr=on}} <ref name="navsource">[http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/01idx.htm 173' subchasers] from [http://www.navsource.org/ Navsource]</ref> |Ship beam={{convert|23|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught={{convert|10|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=2 x 2,880bhp Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. |Ship sail plan= |Ship speed=20 knots |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=65 |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks |Ship armour=None |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} |} '''USS ''PC-603''''' was a '''PC-461 class''' subchaser assigned to the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet during World War II. ''PC-603'' is notable for being The ''PC-603'' was laid down on [[May 9]], [[1942]] at the [[Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp.]], [[Morris Heights, New York]]. She was launched [[June 30]] sponsored by Mrs. J. H. Keatley; and was commissioned on [[October 1]], [[1942]]. During October and November of 1942, ''PC-603'' conducted shakedown in the Atlantic along the southeastern coast of the United States and escorted coastal convoys between the Virginia Capes and Key West, Fla. She visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 29 November and Kingston, Jamaica, on the following day, before heading for Panama, The submarine chaser transited the canal on 5 December, stopped at San Diego from the 13th to the 18th, and reported for duty to the Commander, Northwestern Sea Frontier, at Seattle, Wash., on the 21st. After almost four months at Seattle, she headed north on 11 April 1943. ''PC-603'' made Kodiak, Alaska, on the 14th ; and, for the next seven months, escorted convoys and patrolled the cold waters surrounding the Aleutian Islands. Her most frequent ports of call were at Attu, Adak, and Amchitka, though she also visited Dutch Harbor, Shemya, and Kiska. On 29 November, ''PC-603'' departed Adak and headed south. She entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December and spent the remainder of the war and the succeeding nine months assigned to the Hawaiian Sea Frontier. She was stationed at Pearl Harbor through 26 May 1944; then moved to Midway Island until December. She returned to Pearl Harbor in early January 1945 and operated between the major islands of the Hawaiian group until 10 May 1946, when she headed for the west coast. Following a month at San Pedro, Calif., she headed south along the coast on 15 June and transited the Panama Canal at the end of the month. ''PC-603'' continued her voyage and made Norfolk, Va., on 8 July. On 29 August, she departed Norfolk in the tow of Kiowa (''AT F-72'') and reached Philadelphia the following evening to begin duty in the 4th Naval District. On 8 January 1947, ''PC-603'' was decommissioned at Philadelphia and was placed in service with the Naval Reserve Training Program. Operating along the length of the eastern seaboard and occasionally in the Caribbean Sea, the submarine chaser continued this assignment until October 1949. On the 15th, she was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet ; and, on the 26th, she reported to the Norfolk Group. On 1 February 1956, ''PC-603'' was named Solvay. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1960, and the disposal of her hulk was approved on 15 March 1961. ==External links== * [http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/010603.htm Technical and historical information about USS ''PC-603''] from www.navsource.org [[Category:Ships]]
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