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PC-1200


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 16 November 1942 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 23 January 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1200, 29 May 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Turned over to Commander Naval Base, Newport, RI and run aground on the Hens & Chickens Reef in the Buzzards Bay area for use as a bombing target; Struck from the Naval Register, (date 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, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, no reduction gears, two shafts.

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