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PC-1149 Susanville

Call sign: November - Hotel - Alpha - Mike

Susanville served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
PC-553 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 November 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; Launched, 11 January 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1149, 22 June 1944; Decommissioned, 20 February 1947 at Astoria, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Susanville (PC-1149), 15 February 1956; Transferred on loan to Taiwan, 16 July 1957 under the Security Assistance Program, renamed Hsi Kiang (PC 120); Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976; Final disposition, transferred from Taiwanese Navy to the Taiwanese Customs Service, 30 June 1972, sold outright to Taiwan, 1 May 1976. 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. 14273 & 14280), two shafts.
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