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PC-1611


PC-1611 was built in France.

PC-1604 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, (date unknown) by Mediterranee, France for the French Navy using "offshore" funds; Launched, (date unknown); Delivered, 3 November 1955; Commissioned L'Opiniatre (P 642); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Sold for scrap in 1978.

Specifications: Displacement 402 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 18.7 kts.; Complement 63; Armament one 40-mm mount; two 20-mm mounts, Between 1959 and 1962 the boat was armed with a MK15 Hedgehog rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion four 3,240 hp direct-reversible SEMT-Pielstick 14-cylinder diesel engines, two shafts.


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L'Opiniatre 87k c. 1980 Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for PC-1611 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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