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PC-1238



Call sign: November - Charlie - Oscar - Sierra



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 April 1943 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., MOrris Heights, NY; Launched, 15 May 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1238, 6 September 1943; Sunk, 9 October 1945 at Buckner Bay, Okinawa from Typhoon Louise; Refloated and decommissioned, 30 November 1945; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, May 1947 and sold for scrap to the Oklahoma-Philippine Co.; Struck from the Naval Register, (date 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, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7033 & 7034), two shafts.

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PC-1238 115k After launching. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1238 22k Hulk of PC-1238 after sinking by Typhoon Louise. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1238 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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