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PC-1243



Call sign: November - Charlie - Uniform - Mike



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 December 1943 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 15 March 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1243, 12 September 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1946; Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 27 August 1947 and sold to Negros Navigation Co., San Francisco, CA. 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, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors (K-guns), two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14209 & 14210), two shafts.

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PC-1243 96k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1243 101k Ships Logo. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1243 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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