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Durango (PC 1260)
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 October 1942 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 16 January 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1260, 24 April 1943; Named Durango, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, (date unknown); 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 (replaced by Mk 15 Hedgehogs), one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines, two shafts.
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