USS Abingdon
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PC-1237 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser in the service of the United States Navy. She was later given the name Abingdon after the town of Abingdon, Virginia.
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Namesake | Town of Abingdon, Virginia |
Builder | Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York |
Yard number | 3141 |
Laid down | 14 February 1943 |
Launched | 3 April 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. David Challinor |
Commissioned | 26 July 1943 |
Decommissioned | October 1949 |
In service | July 1946 |
Renamed | Abingdon, 15 February 1956 |
Stricken | 1 April 1959 |
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Fate | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PC-461-class submarine chaser |
Displacement |
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Length | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 20.2 kn (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph) |
Complement | 65 |
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PC-1237, hull No. 3141, was laid down on 14 February 1943 at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., in Morris Heights, New York;[1] launched on 3 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. David Challinor; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 26 July 1943 with Lieutenant J. F. Weller, Jr., USNR, in command.[2]