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PC-1265



Call sign: November - Foxtrot - Mike - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 October 1943 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York; Launched, 19 December 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1265, 12 May 1944. PC-1265 was assigned to the Eastern and Caribbean Sea Frontiers, and the Canadian Coastal Zones during World War II. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 December 1946. Fate unknown.

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 RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7327 & 7328), two shafts.
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PC-1265 116k c. 1944, entering Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cubs. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1265 117k c. Winter 1944/1945, covered with salt ice. Temperature 10 degrees F. Frontier Base, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1265 63k c. October 1945, Navy Day. Marblehead, MA. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1265 100k c. October 1945, Navy Day. Marblehead, MA. Officers of the PC-1265. Top row, left to right:
ENS Gene Sire,
ENS Jerry Parle,
LT Earle Morgan, and
LTJG Marland Colby.
Front row, left to right:
ENS William Demery,
ENS Art Miller, and
ENS Tom Morris.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1265 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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