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PC-1213 Louden



Call sign: November - Quebec - Tango - Whiskey



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 November 1942 at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 22 May 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1213, 6 October 1943 at New York, NY; Decommissioned, 20 July 1946 at Green Bay, Wisc. and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Renamed USS Louden (PC-1213), 15 February 1956; Placed out of service, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold for scrapping, 14 December 1959 to Walsh Construction Co., New York, NY; Scrapped at Portland, ME, 1960.

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, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7027 & 7028), two shafts.

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PC-1213 87k Alongside PC-605 after launching, 22 May 1943. Inscription on plaque reads: "This Fighting Ship Sponsored and Made Possible by the War Bond Purchases of the People of Jamestown, NY"
National Archive Photo 19-N-47911
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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