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PC-1143



Call sign: November - Golf - Whiskey - Victor



PC-1143 served the Navies of the United States, France and South Vietnam.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 17 April 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.; Launched, 25 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1143, 16 May 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to France, (date unknown) and named Trident; Transferred to South Vietnam, 1956 and renamed Tuy Dong (HQ 04); Struck from the Naval Register, 1971. 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, two depth charge tracks, two rocket launchers; Propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14251 & 14252), two shafts.

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PC-1143 56k c. 1943. Builders trials
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Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1143 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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