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PC-1561

PC-1561 served the Navies of the United States and France.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, (date unknown) by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS PC-1561, (date unknown); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transfered to France, 1944; and renamed Dague (A 623); Dague decommissioned, 31 May 1951. 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, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, two shafts.
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