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PC-1249


PC-1249 transferred to France.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 4 August 1943 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 6 November 1943; Commissioned as Pique (W 13), 9 February 1944 and transferred to France; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Pique was struck from the Naval Register, 21 July 1959. 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 (Serial No. 14255 & 14256), two shafts.

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Pique 97k Photographed prior to transfer to France. Note French hull number and paint job, and U.S. flag flying from mast. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1249 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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