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PC-1170 Kelso



Call sign: November - Papa - Mike - Oscar



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 July 1943 at Sullivan Dry Dock and Repair Co., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 16 October 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1170, 21 February 1944; Decommissioned, 5 August 1955 at San Francisco, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Renamed USS Kelso (PC-1170), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold for scrapping to Ship Supply Corp., 25 April 1961.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 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 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14247 & 14248), two shafts.
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Kelso 69k . Gus D. Stamos, QM3
crew member 1947-1949
Kelso 56k - Gus D. Stamos, QM3
crew member 1947-1949
Kelso 29k Pearl Harbor Gus D. Stamos, QM3
crew member 1947-1949

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793

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