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Tipton (PC 1231)


PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1 September 1942 by the Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 12 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1231, 13 July 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Named Tipton, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

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 Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines, two shafts.

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