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PC-1229 Wauseon

Call sign: November - Charlie - Juliet - Papa
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 September 1942 at Leatham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 19 December 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1229, 11 June 1942 at New Orleans, La.; Decommissioned, 7 August 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla.: Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; Renamed USS Wauseon (PC-1229), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 5 September 1957; Sold for scrapping, 1 July 1958 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md.
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 depth charge projectors (mousetrap), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 10861 & 10862), two shafts.
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After launching. PC-1227 which launched 2 months earlier is forward of her. |
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