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Tarrytown (PC 1252)

Call sign: November - Delta - Charlie - Yankee

Tarrytown served the Navies of the United States and Venezuela.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 8 June 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; Launched, 30 September 1942; Commissioned USS PC-1252, 27 March 1943; Decommissioned, 28 June 1946 at Philadelphia, PA; Named Tarrytown, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Transferred to Venezuela, October 1960; Cannibalized for spare parts.
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, one 40mm gun mount, three 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel engines (Serial No. 833269 & 833270), two shafts.
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