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PCC-1126
ex-PC-1126



Call sign:
November - Golf - Quebec - Papa


Destroyed 24 December 1945

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 August 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI; Launched, 31 October 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1126, 27 May 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-1126, 20 August 1945; Grounded 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise and determined to be beyond economical repair; Decommissioned 23 November 1945; Stripped and destroyed 24 December 1945.

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, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks, two depth charge projectors (mousetrap); Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial # 10842 & 10845), two shafts.


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PC-1126 83k PC-1126 aground alongside PGM-27 after typhoon Louise. Buckner Bay, Okinawa. 12 October 1945. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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