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Castine (IX 211)
ex-PC-452



Call sign: November - Echo - Victor - Tango

PC-452 class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 14 March 1940 by the DeFoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI as Hull #167, under the Experimental Small Craft program of 17 May 1938. Called "X-Boats," they differed in detail and were listed as 165 footers; Launched, 23 August 1941 and towed to the Philadelphia Navy Yard to be fitted out with boilers; PC-452 was to be used as a steam turbine test bed hull; Commissioned USS PC-452, 1 May 1944; Reclassified as an Unclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, IX-211, and named Castine, 10 March 1945; Decommissioned 3 October 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal in January 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement, 348 t.; Length, 173.8''; Beam, 23'"; Speed, unknown; Complement, unknown; Propulsion, Beasler boilers with Delaval turbines; Armament, unknown.


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PC-452 53k Before launching, 7 July 1941. Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-452 51k Before launching, 7 July 1941.
National Archives Photo 19-N-24533.
Bob Daly/PC-1181

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