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PC-1248


PC-1248 transferred to the Free French on commissioning.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down as PC-1248, 29 June 1943 by the Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville, TN; Launched, 18 August 1943; Directly commissioned into the Free French Navy as Sabre (W 11), 18 January 1944; Sabre was condemned and decommissioned, 23 November 1959; Stricken, 1960. Fate unknown.

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 General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14249 & 14250), two shafts.

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