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PC-1196 Mayfield
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 29 August 1942 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morrsi Heights NY; Launched, 24 Ocotber 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1196, 7 April 1943 at New York Navy Yard, New York, NY; Decommissioned July 1946 at Charleston SC and placed In-Service as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed Out-of-Service December 1949; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA.; Renamed USS Mayfield (PC-1196), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Final disposition, sold for scrapping to Welsh Construction Co., New York, NY.
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 diesel.
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