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Abingdon (PC-1237)
ex-PC-1237



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Lima - Zulu
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 14 February 1943 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 3 April 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1237, 26 July 1943 at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; Decommissioned, October 1949: Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA; Named Abingdon 15 February 1956 after the Town of Abingdon, Virginia; Struck from the Navy Register 1 April 1959.
Fate unknown.

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, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler
R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7021 and 7022), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PC-1237 239k Launching
Photo from the front page of the May 1943 edition of Motorboat magazine.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1237 161k c. 1948
On Naval Reserve Duty in the Great Lakes.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
View the Abingdon (PC-1237)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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