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PC-1186 Ipswich



Call sign: November - Quebec - Alpha - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 April 1943 at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL.; Launched, 27 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1186, 9 June 1944; Decommissioned, 22 July 1946 at New York City, NY; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group, Boston, MA.; Renamed USS Ipswich (PC-1186), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping to Hughes Brothers, Inc.

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 RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7339 & 7340), two shafts.

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PC-1186 41k Pictured in New York harbor as Naval Reserve vessel. Statue of Liberty seen behind 40mm gun mount and Ellis Island off the bow. c. 1950. Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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