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Elkins (PC-1216)


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 April 1943 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 29 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1216, 31 December 1943; Decommissioned in the spring of 1946 at Chicago, IL; Named Elkins, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.

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Elkins 87k . Lewis Picard, EM 3/c

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