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PC-1217



Call sign: November - Quebec - Xray - Golf



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 26 May 1943 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 26 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1217, 27 April 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). PC-1217 was scheduled to be used as a bombing target in the First Naval District (Boston). Hulk never used. Transferred to the Maritime Commission for sale, 24 March 1948; Sold for scrap, (date unknown) to Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY.

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. 7317 & 7318), two shafts.

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PC-1217 64k PC-1217 Builders Plaque. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1217 12k Hurricane damage Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
PC-1217 14k Hurricane damage Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Scrapyard 118k PC-1217 and PC-1264 at Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. c. 1990. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1217 116k PC-1217 at Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. c. 1990. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1217 159k PC-1217 at Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. c. 1990. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1217 112k PC-1217 at Whitte Bros. Marine Scrap Yard, Rossville, Staten Island, NY. c. 1990. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1217 at the Hazegray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

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