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PC-1121



PC-1121 call sign:
Nan - George - Mike - Zebra


PC-1121 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines



Camarines Sur call sign:
Dog - Uncle - Nan - Uncle
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 30 June 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI
  • Launched 27 August 1943
  • Commissioned USS PC-1121, 10 December 1943
  • Transferred, on loan, in June 1948 to the Philippines and named RPS Camarines Sur (C 21)
  • Reclassified PG-48
  • Struck from the Navy Register in 1953
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 295 t.
  • Length 173' 8"
  • Beam 23'
  • Draft 10' 10"
  • Speed 20.2 kts.
  • Complement 65
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount;, three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 7803 and 7804), Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    PC-1121 103k c. August 1943
    PC-1121 on launching dolly at Defoe Shipbuilding. The hull on the left is inverted. After welding on the inverted hull was completed, two 50 foot eccentric wheels were clamped into position and the hull rolled over onto a launching dolly. The actual roll over was performed by a crane and required the labor of about 12 men for about 10 minutes. PC-471 was the first subchaser rolled over in August 1941
    Photo courtesy of the Great Lakes Institute    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    PC-1121 29k c. September 1944
    In dry dock at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, Papua, New Guinea
    PC-1121 151k Dry docked in an unidentified small dry dock in September, 1944. The photograph is taken at Seeadler Harbor, located at Manus Island, Admiralty Islands, Papua, New Guinea
    National Archives photo 80-G-286199    		 Mike Green
    Photo added 21 April 2020
    There is no DANFS history available for PC-1121
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