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PC-1207



Call sign: November - Quebec - Mike - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 26 June 1943 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 18 August 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1207, 12 November 1943; Decommissioned, December 1945 at Norfolk, VA; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, (date unknown) to Wilson Lines, Inc., Boston, MA and renamed Sea Belle; She was used on the Boston to Provincetown, Cape Cod run, New York to Rockaway/Rye Beach amusement parks and on the Chesapeake Bay runs to Baltimore and Norfolk. In 1955 the Wilson Company was sold to an investment company who sold all the assets of the company. The M/V Sea Belle was laid up in Wilmington for a few years and then was sold for use as a floating restaurant in the Norfolk, VA area. After being sold a few times and a fire in 1985 she ended up in the back waters of Little Creek where her partially dismantled hulk remains today.

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, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7063 & 7064), (engines replaced with two General Motors 12-278As during conversion), two shafts.

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PC-1207 64k Departing Port of Spain, Trinidad. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1207 76k Hull cut in half in preparation of conversion to Sea Belle. July 1948. Wilson Shipyard, Wilmington, DE. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sea Belle 55k Sea Belle. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sea Belle 119k The remains of PC-1207 / Sea Belle at Little Creek, VA. c. 1995. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sea Belle 110k The remains of PC-1207 / Sea Belle at Little Creek, VA. c. 1995. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sea Belle 89k The remains of PC-1207 / Sea Belle at Little Creek, VA. LCU-1656 is at the Naval Amphibious Base in the left background. c. 1995. Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sea Belle 110k The remains of PC-1207 / Sea Belle at Little Creek, VA. Gunston Hall (LSD 44) is at the Naval Amphibious Base in the background. c. 1995. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1207 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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