"PC" Class Patrol Boat (1916)

A total of twenty "PC" Boats decoy patrol vessels were completed for work with the Royal Navy.

The first ten ordered were taken up from vessels intended to be "P" Class Patrol Boats. The two classes used the same numbering line.

Overview of 20 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
PC 42	Caird		7 Jun, 1917		Sold Dec, 1921
PC 43	Caird		14 Aug, 1917		Sold Jan, 1923
PC 44	Laird		25 Apr, 1917		Sold Dec, 1921
PC 51	Tyne Iron Ship Builders		25 Nov, 1916		Sold May, 1923
PC 55	Barclay Curle		5 May, 1917		to Feb, 1922
PC 56	Barclay Curle		2 Jun, 1917		Sold Jul, 1923
PC 60	Workman Clark		4 Jun, 1917		Sold Feb, 1924
PC 61	Workman Clark		19 Jun, 1917		Sold Apr, 1923
PC 62	Harland & Wolff, Govan		7 Jun, 1917		Sold Dec, 1921
PC 63	Connell		2 Oct, 1917		Sold May, 1923
PC 65	Eltringham		5 Sep, 1917		Sold Jan, 1923
PC 66	Harkess		12 Feb, 1918		Sold Jul, 1923
PC 67	J. S. White		7 May, 1917		Sold Dec, 1921
PC 68	J. S. White		29 Jun, 1917		Sold Dec, 1921
PC 69	Workman Clark		11 Mar, 1918		to Oct, 1925
PC 70	Workman Clark		12 Apr, 1918		Sold Sep, 1926
PC 71	J. S. White		18 Mar, 1918		Sold Oct, 1925
PC 72	J. S. White		8 Jun, 1918		Sold Oct, 1925
PC 73	J. S. White		1 Aug, 1918		Sold Mar, 1939
PC 74	J. S. White		4 Oct, 1918		Sold Mar, 1948

Design

They were armed as follows:

• one 4-in
• two 12-pdrs

PC42-56 displaced 682 tons, and the 60-74 displaced 694 tons.

See Also

• Wikipedia
• "P" Class Patrol Boat

Bibliography

• Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).

"PC" Class Patrol Boat

December, 1916 Order

PC 42

PC 43

PC 44

PC 51

PC 55

PC 56

PC 60

PC 61

PC 62

PC 63

January, 1917 Order

PC 65

PC 66

PC 67

PC 68

PC 69

PC 70

June, 1917 Order

PC 71

PC 72

PC 73

PC 74

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