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PC-1237 Abingdon

Call sign: November - Charlie - Lima - Zulu
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 February 1943 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 3 April 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1237, 26 July 1943 at New York Navy Yard, New York, NY; Decommissioned, October 1949: Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group, Norfolk, VA; Renamed USS Abingdon (PC-1237), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959. Fate unknown.
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, two 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7021 & 7022), two shafts.
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On Naval Reserve Duty in the Great Lakes. c. 1948. |
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