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Bel Air (PC 1191)


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 23 May 1942 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY.; Launched, 25 July 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1191, 2 November 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Named Bel Air, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks. two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines, two shafts.

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