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PC / PCC-1244 Martinez



Call sign: November - Charlie - Victor - Mike



PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 January 1943 by Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 8 May 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1244, 5 October 1943 at New Orleans, LA; Reclassified as an Amphibious Control Craft PCC-1244, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, 15 February 1950 at Bremerton, WA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Designation reverted to a Submarine Chaser PC-1244, 27 October 1953; Named Martinez, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold for scrapping to Astoria Ship and Power Co., Astoria, Oregon, 19 May 1961. PC-1244 received one battle star for World War II service.

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 General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14215 & 14216), two shafts.
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PCC-1244 84k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
Martinez 17k . Clay Long
Martinez 71k c. 1945, Palermo, Sicily E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228

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