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PC-1130


PC-1130 served the Navies of the United States, France and South Vietnam.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 October 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI; Launched, 10 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1130, 19 June 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to France, (date unknown) and named Intrepide; Transferred to South Vietnam, (date unknown) and renamed Van Kiep (HQ 02); Struck from the Naval Register, 10 July 1965. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 16-258S diesel engines, two shafts.
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-1130 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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