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PC-1198 Westerly



Call sign: November - Quebec - Delta - Uniform



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 October 1942 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 12 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1198, 3 May 1943 at New York Navy Yard, New York, NY; Decommissioned, 15 March 1950 at Boston, MA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group, Boston, MA.; Renamed USS Westerly (PC-1198), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 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 mount, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6989 & 6990), no reduction gear, two shafts.

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Westerly 42k looking aft toward 40mm gun mount Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
PC-1198 113k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

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