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Glenwood (PC 1140)
ex-PC-1140



Call sign:
November - Golf - Whiskey - November


PC-553 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 February 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 14 June 1943; Commissioned USS
PC-1140, 22 January 1944; Decommissioned in January 1947 at Norfolk, Va.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Named Glenwood 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1960. Sold in March 1961 and renamed M/V Daniel L. Harris III. Fate unknown. PC-1140 earned one battle star for World War II service.

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 single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14229 and 14230), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.
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Daniel L. Harris III 58k As the M/V Daniel L. Harris III. Miami River, Miami, FL. 28 September 1983.
Photo by George R. Schneider		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
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