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PC-1140 Glenwood



Call sign: November - Golf - Whiskey - November



PC-553 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 February 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 14 June 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1140, 22 January 1944; Decommissioned, January 1947 at Norfolk, Va.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Renamed USS Glenwood (PC-1140), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960. Sold, March 1961 (buyer unknown) and renamed M/V Daniel L. Harris III; Fate unknown. PC-1140 earned one battle star 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, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14229 & 14230), two shafts.

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Daniel L. Harris III 58k As the M/V Daniel L. Harris III. Miami River, Miami, FL. 28 September 1983.
Photo by George R. Schneider
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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