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PC-1242 Port Clinton



Call sign: November - Charlie - Uniform - Alpha



PC-663 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 22 September 1942 at Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 25 January 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1242, 12 July 1943 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, 1 January 1947: Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Port Clinton (PC-1242), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1959; Sold to Pacific Diesel Co. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 374 t.; Length 169' 7"; Beam 20' 9"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed; 20.9k; Complement 80; Armament one 40mm gun, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 10880 & 10882), two shafts.

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PC-1242 78k At her builders. Date unknown. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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