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PC-1223



Call sign: November - Charlie - Delta - November



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 September 1943 by the Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ; Launched, 9 January 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1223, 13 November 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 26 November 1946 to the Foss Tug and Barge Co., Tacoma, WA. 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 RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7363 & 7364), two shafts.

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PC-1223 74k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1223 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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