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PC-1173 Andalusia

Call sign: November - Papa - Papa - Xray
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 21 April 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 26 June 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1173, 1 November 1943 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, March 1946 at Green Cove Springs, FL.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL.; Renamed USS Andalusia (PC-1173), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960. Sunk as a target, 23 November 1965 by aircraft from USS America (CVA 66), 200 miles due eat of Cape Charles, VA.
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, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14217 & 14218), two shafts.
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