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PC / PCC-1230 Grinnell



Call sign: November - Charlie - India - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 December 1942 at Leathern D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 10 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1230, 12 July 1943. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater of operations and participated in the Palau Island invasion. Reclassified PCC-1230, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, March 1946; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Grinnell (PC-1230), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 1960's to the Western Milling Company; Resold in 1970 to the National Metals and Steel Company of Terminal Island, California; Sold, April 1971 to L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology; Renamed Bolivar with the California license CF-3871-EM. They painted her white and installed davits on the starboard side aft for a whale boat type tender. Through 1976, she was sighted in the San Pedro-Long Beach sections of the Los Angeles harbor. In the early 1980's she was sighted moored alongside the Indies Dock in Los Angeles. She had been painted gray with the California registry CF9892-LA and renamed Grinnell. No further sightings have been reported. Fate unknown. PCC-1230 received one battle star for World War II service.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six Officers, 53 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 10869 & 10872), two shafts.

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PC-1230 44k Sea trials, 19 June 1943
Great Lakes Institute Photo by W. C. Schroeder
Bob Daly/PC-1181
Grinnell 28k As PCC-1230. HyperWar Web Site
M/V Bolivar 87k M/V Bolivar
Photo by George R. Schneider
Bob Daly/PC-1181
M/V Grinnell 159k M/V Grinnell
Photo by Adam Ostovich
. c. 1983.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
M/V Grinnell 87k M/V Grinnell
Photo by Adam Ostovich
. c. 1983.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
M/V Grinnell 111k M/V Grinnell
Photo by Adam Ostovich
. c. 1983.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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