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Woodstock (PC-1180)



Call sign: November - Papa - Uniform - Victor

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 5 October 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 27 November 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1180, 10 February 1944 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 15 November 1946 at Williamette Iron and Steel Co., Portland, Oregon; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Named Woodstock 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold for scrapping in 1961.

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, six 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks. two depth charge projectors (mousetrap); Propulsion two Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 847726 & 847727), two shafts.


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PC-1180 58k Alongside the fitting out dock at Sturgeon Bay, WI with unfinished PC-822 in background. 15 January 1944.
Great Lakes Institute Photo
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1208 153k c. 1945
Balboa, Canal Zone. Moored between PC-1208 and PC-1181
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
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