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PC-1120 Carlinville



Call sign: November - Golf - Kilo - Uniform



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 19 June 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI; Launched, 24 August 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1120, 18 January 1943. During World War II, PC-1120 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and took part in the following operations: Bismark Archipelago operations-Arawe, New Britain, 15 December 1943 and 4 - 13 January 1944; Eastern New Guinea operations-Saidor occupation, 2 - 4 June 1944; Western New Guinea operations-Biak Island operation, 18 - 21 June 1944, Noemfoor Island operation, 2 - 4 July 1944, Cape Sansapor operation, and the Morotai operations, 15 September 1944; Leyte landings, 15 - 25 October 1944; Borneo operations-Tarakan Island operations, 27 April - 5 May 1945; and the Consolidation of the Southern Philippines-Palawan Island landings, 28 February - 3 March 1945. Decommissioned, January 1947 and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at the Columbia River; Renamed USS Carlinville (PC-1120), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1959; Sold, 1975 and renamed Island Transport and operated in Hawaiian waters; Sold to Greenpeace, 1977 and renamed M/V Ohana Kai (i.e., Children of the Sea); Sold to Clause Von Wendel, (date unknown) who lived aboard her at Berkley, CA; Sold at Alameda, CA for scrap, early 1991.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement six 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 General Motors 16-258S diesel engines, (Serial No. 7796 and 7797), two shafts.
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Carlinville 46k - E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228
Carlinville 30k 31 July 1944 off Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Bob Daly/PC-1181
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Edward R. Middleton, S-1/C, USNR,
Crew Member 1946
Ohana Kai 68k As "Greenpeace" M/V Ohana Kai. Honolulu, 1977. Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS history available for Carlinville (PC-1120) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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