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PC-1228 Munising



Call sign: November - Charlie - Hotel - Romeo

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 September 1942 by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 18 November 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1228, 21 May 1943 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, 19 July 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Munising (PC-1228), 15 February 1956; Authorized for disposal, 22 July 1957; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold for scrapping, 1 July 1958 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.

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 (Serial No. 10854 & 10857), two shafts.


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Munising 72k - E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228
Crew member PC-1228
15 September 1943 to December 1945
Munising 237k . Dean Ferber
Munising 76k c. July 1945
Espirito Santos, New Hebrides.
MoMM3/c Rudolf W. Keil
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Paul E. Petosky

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