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PC-1618
PC-1618 served the Navies of France, West Germany and Tunisia.
PC-1618 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down as P-7, (date unknown) by Dubigeon, France for the French Navy using "offshore" funds; Launched, (date unknown); Transferred to West Germany and placed in service, 12 March 1957 for use as a training ship at the Underwater Weapons School and classified as an Underwater Weapons Training Ship UW-12; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft (Wachboot) W-51, (date unknown); Between 1963 and1965 W-51 was used for testing the GWS-20 Seacat SAM, an optical guided AA-missile; Purchased by Tunisia, 16 June 1970 and renamed Sakiet Sidi Youssef (P 303); Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 402 t.; Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 18.7 kts.; Complement 63; Armament one 40-mm mount; two 20-mm mounts, Between 1959 and 1962 the boat was armed with a MK15 Hedgehog rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion four 3,240 hp SEMT-Pielstick 14-cylinder diesel engines, two controllable pitch propellers, two shafts.
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c. 1959 Seen as UW-12 |
Lutz Fuhrmann
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c. 1962 Seen as W-51 |
Lutz Fuhrmann
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c. 1970 Combat Fleets of the World. |
Fabio Peña
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Sakiet Sidi Youssef (P 303) outboard of Président Bourghiba (E 7), ex-USS Thomas J. Gary (DER 326). Barcelona, Spain. 22 July 1980. |
Fabio Peña
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There is no DANFS history available for PC-1618 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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