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PC-1175 Vandalia



Call sign: November - Papa - Quebec - Papa



Vandalia served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 June 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 7 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1175, 1 December 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 16 August 1946 at Astoria, Oregon.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, Oregon; Renamed USS Vandalia (PC-1175), 15 February 1956; Transferred on loan to Taiwan, July 1957 and renamed Han Kiang (PC 124); Struck from the Naval Register, 15 June 1969; Ran aground, late 1968 or early 1969; Han Kiang was decommissioned and struck, 1 January 1972; Sold for scrapping by Taiwan.

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, one depth charge projector (mousetrap), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14227 & 14232), two shafts.

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PC-1175 125k Launching
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1175 43k Mayport, FL. c. 1944. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-120 53k Han Kiang (PC 124) Chinese Navy

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