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PC-1197

Call sign: November - Quebec - Delta - Uniform
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 19 September 1942 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 14 November 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1197, 22 April 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.
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, three 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6983 and 6984), no reduction gear, two shafts.
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There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1197 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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