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Wildwood (PC-1181)



Call sign: November - Papa - Tango - Mike

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 October 1942 at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Fla; Launched, 15 April 1943; Commissioned USS
PC-1181
, 17 September 1943 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC; Decommissioned, 18 August 1946; Assigned to Naval Reserve Training duty at St. Petersburg, Fla; Subsequently placed in reserve at Brownsville, TX, later shifted to Norfolk, VA; Named Wildwood 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping.

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, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7007 and 7008), two shafts.


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Wildwood 77k - E J Comeau, PC-552/1228
PC-1181 93k Pencil drawing by Bill Buffington - PC 617. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1208 153k c. 1945
Balboa, Canal Zone. Moored inboard of PC-1208 and PC-1182
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1181 39k Belize, British Honduras, 15 August 1945. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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