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PC-1209 Medina



Call sign: November - Quebec - Mike - Whiskey



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 18 August 1943 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; Launched, 7 October 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1209, 1 May 1944; Decommissioned, January 1950; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group, Boston, MA.; Renamed USS Medina (PC-1209), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 9 October 1959 to Hughes Brothers, Inc., New York, 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. 7301 & 7302), two shafts.

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PC-1209 84k Launching, 7 October 1943 Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1209 63k On Naval Reserve duty at Stamford, CT 1946 - 1949. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-1209 106k Tied up at the Frontier Base, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, NY. Note that the censor blacked out the radar domes on the three forward PCs, but forgot the two in the rear.
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Bob Daly/PC-1181
Medina 33k c. January 1945 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII

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