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Hanford (PC 1142)



Call sign: November - Golf - Uniform - November



Hanford served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

PC-553 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 31 March 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 20 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1142, 3 June 1944; Decommissioned, October 1946 at Vancouver, WA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Named Hanford 15 February 1956; Transferred on loan under the Mutual Assistance Program, 16 July 1957 to Taiwan, renamed Pei Kiang (PC-122); Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976; Sold to Taiwan 1 May 1976. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 12425 & 12426), two shafts.

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PC-1142 52k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-122 35k Pei Kiang (PC 122) Chinese Navy

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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