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PC-1264



Call sign: November - Foxtrot - Lima - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 October 1943 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York; Launched, 28 November 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1264, 25 April 1944 at Pier 42, New York City. PC-1264 was one of two World War II Navy ships to be manned by a largely African-American enlisted complement. Decommissioned, 7 February 1946 at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY; Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 24 March 1948; Scrapped by Whitte Brothers Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7319 & 7320), two shafts.
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PC-1264 106k c. April 1944, New York
US Navy Photo NH 92460
Naval Historical Center
PC-1264 117k Commissioning ceremonies at
North River Pier, New York City, 25 April 1944.
US Navy Photo NH 1151766
Photographed by International News Photos.
Naval Historical Center
PC-1264 95k Ship's enlisted complement on the fantail, at the time of her commissioning ceremonies, 25 April 1944, at New York City. Note barrel of 40mm single gun mount in left foreground.
US Navy Photo NH 92463
Naval Historical Center
Fred Weiss
PC-1264 63k Naval Institute Press Photo 94031 Bob Daly/PC-1181
Scrapyard 118k PC-1217 and PC-1264 at Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. c. 1990. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1264 104k c. 1990. At Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1264 91k c. 1990. At Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1264 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D,. USNR, Ret. PC-793

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