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PC-1261

Sunk 6 June 1944

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Delivered in April 1943; Sunk by shore batteries 6 June 1944 during the invasion of Normandy; Struck from the Naval Register, 29 July 1944.

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 diesel engines, two shafts.


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PC-1261 81k Photo courtesy of the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Bowling Green State University
George Murray

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