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PC-1193 Ridgway



Call sign: November - Quebec - Charlie - Alpha



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 June 1942 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY.; Launched, 29 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1193, 21 January 1943 at New York Navy Yard, New York, NY.; Decommissioned, 2 March 1950 at Boston, MA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group, Boston, MA.; Renamed USS Ridgway (PC-1193), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 16 September 1959 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 R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6833 and 6834), no reduction gears, two shafts.

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PC-1193 41k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1193 55k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1193 111k In dry dock. .

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