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PC / PCC-1177 Guymon



Call sign: November - Papa - Romeo - Foxtrot



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 July 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 18 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1177, 20 December 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-1177, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, 27 July 1946 at Astoria, Oregon.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Reclassified as a Submarine Chaser (173') PC-1177, 27 October 1955; Renamed USS Guymon (PC-1177), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 25 April 1961 to Zidell Exploration Inc. Seattle, WA. Fate unknown. PC-1177 earned two battle stars for World War II service.

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, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks. two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 833295 & 833296).

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PC-1177 89k Launching.
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