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PC-1218



Call sign: November - Charlie - Alpha - Alpha



PC-1218 served the Navies of the United States and Thailand.



HTMS Sukeip call sign:
Hotel - Sierra - Yankee - Hotel



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 2 July 1943 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 24 October 1943; Commissioned USS PC 1218, 29 May 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 7 June 1948 and sold to Thailand; Renamed HTMS Sukeip (PC 5); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sukeip was placed in reserve and struck in 1991. 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 Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7331 & 7332), two shafts.

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PC-1218 74k HTMS Sukeip (PC 5) Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1218 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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