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Escandido (PC / PCC 1169)

Call sign: November - Papa - Kilo - Delta
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 July 1943 by the Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 16 October 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1169, 26 January 1944; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser PCC-1169, (date unknown); Decommissioned, 1950 and laid up at Columbia River, OR; Named Escandido, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
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 General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14235 & 14244), two shafts.
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