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PC-1222



Call sign: November - Charlie - Bravo - Kilo

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 26 October 1942 by the Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Camden, NJ; Launched, 25 September 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1222, 7 July 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, June 1947 to Lucienne Benitez Rexach of San Pedro de Marcoris, Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, for conversion to his private yacht Gosse. The conversion was completed by late 1948 at a cost of over one million dollars. With hand carved wooden ceilings panels in the salons and owners state room. All nine staterooms were air conditioned by Carrier and equiped with telephones and private bathrooms. The boat deck was set up for entertaining with bars and facilities for more than 110 guests. There were two complete galleys with facilities to serve over 100 guests. Twin 1800 hp Hamilton diesels afford a top speed of 18 knots with 14 knot cruising range. 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 mount, one 40mm gun mount, two 20mm guns, four depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7031 & 7032), two shafts.

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PC-1222 69k Ted Stone photo taken 22 April 1947 at the temporary reserve fleet anchorge in Bayonne Bay, New Jersey. Bob Daly/PC-1181
M/V Gosse 82k M/V Gosse Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1222 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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