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PC-1141 Pierre



Call sign: November - Golf - Whiskey - Delta



PC-1141 served the Navies of the United States and Indonesia.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 12 March 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 22 June 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1141, 23 December 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Renamed USS Pierre (PC-1141), 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 28 October 1958 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, TH; Transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to Indonesia, renamed R. L. Tiakalang; Struck from the Naval Register, 25 October 1958. 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, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14242 & 14243), two shafts.

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PC-1141 90k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1141 55k . Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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