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PC-1257



Call sign: November - Delta - Juliet - India



PC-1257 served the Navies of the United States and Portugal.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 November 1943 by the Luders Marine Comstruction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, 23 July 1944; Commissioned USS PC-1257, 21 December 1944; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 March 1948; Sold to Portugal as NRP Santiago (P 583). Santiago performed Air/Sea Rescue duty in the Azores until 1957. She then had duty with the island of Maderia as an island transport vessel. In 1960, she was posted to Luanda, Angola for combat support operations. Santiago decommissioned in 1967 at Luanda. Fate unknown

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 Officers, 53 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler RB-99DA diesel engines (serial No. 7709 & 7710), two shafts.
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PC-1257 58k From a Christmas Card sent by Bob Daly, Christmas, 2001. Caption under photo reads: "The subchaser sailor's life had pleasures the rest of the Navy never knew." s/Bob Daly Bob Daly/PC-1181
P-583 104k NRP Santiago (P-583) Bob Daly/PC-1181

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