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PC-1560


PC-1560 transferred to the Free French on commissioning.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 19 November 1943 by the Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI; Launched, 3 February 1944; Directly commissioned into the Free French Navy as Coutelas (W 22), 15 April 1944; Coutlas was withdrawn from service, May 1961; Stricken, 23 June 1963. Fate unknown.

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, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks, two depth charge projectors (mousetrap); Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14267 & 14268), two shafts.
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PC-1560 146k Launching. Pre-built sections of the next PC are in the left background.
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1560 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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