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PC-1132


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 November 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI; Launched, 29 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1132, 10 August 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, two shafts.
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PC-1132 32k . Hyperwar US Navy in WW II
PC-1132 61k At sea en route to Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea. c. 1944-06. A U.S. patrol craft boat (PC1132), comes alongside a landing ship, tank (LST) with official orders for RAAF engineers and mail for RAAF troops en route to the Allied landing on 2 July 1944.
Photo by John T. Harrison.
Australian War Memorial
PC-1132 26k At sea en route to Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea. c. 1944-06. A U.S. patrol craft boat (PC1132), comes alongside a landing ship, tank (LST) with official orders for RAAF engineers and mail for RAAF troops en route to the Allied landing on 2 July 1944.
Photo by John T. Harrison.
Australian War Memorial
PC-1132 32k At sea en route to Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea. c. 1944-06. A U.S. patrol craft boat (PC1132), comes alongside a landing ship, tank (LST) with official orders for RAAF engineers and mail for RAAF troops en route to the Allied landing on 2 July 1944.
Photo by John T. Harrison.
Australian War Memorial
PC-1132 32k At sea en route to Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea. c. 1944-06. A U.S. patrol craft boat (PC1132), comes alongside a landing ship, tank (LST) with official orders for RAAF engineers and mail for RAAF troops en route to the Allied landing on 2 July 1944.
Photo by John T. Harrison.
Australian War Memorial

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