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Ukiah (PCC 1251)
ex-PCC-1251
ex-PC-1251



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Charlie - Item

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 June 1942 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 12 September 1942; Commissioned USS
PC-1251
, 27 February 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCC-1251, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, 3 August 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Named Ukiah 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1960 and scrapped.

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, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 2,880bhp Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 833263 & 833264), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PC-1251 102k 2 August 1944
Passing the Enterprise (CV 6)
Robert Hurst

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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