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History
United States
Name
USS PC-1230
Builder
Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Laid down
20 December 1942
Launched
10 March 1943
Commissioned
12 July 1943
Decommissioned
March 1946
Reclassified
20 August 1945, PCC-1230
Fate
Pacific Reserve Fleet, 15 February 1956
General characteristics
Class and type
Submarine Chaser
Displacement
280 t. (lt), 450 t. (fl)
Length
173 ft (53 m)
Beam
23ft.
Draft
10ft. 10in.
Propulsion
2 x 2,880bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines
Speed
20.2 kts
Complement
65
Armament
1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal
1 × 40 mm gun
3 × 20 mm cannons
2 × rocket launchers
4 × depth charge throwers
2 × depth charge tracks
USS PC-1230 was a Patrol Craft, laid down in 1942, participating in escort and convoy missions in the Pacific in World War II, and performed harbor control duties during the Battle of Peleliu.
designation and was given the name USSGrinnell. April 1959 – Sold to private interests 1960–1970 – the registered owner of the ex-USS PC-1230 was the Western Milling...
USS Rescue is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: USS Rescue (1850), was on loan to the U.S. Government by Henry Grinnell in 1850 for use in tracing...
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and search for Franklin. Kane organized and headed the Second Grinnell expedition on the USS Advance which sailed from New York on May 31, 1853. The expedition...
airmen. Some of the submarine chasers served at Eniwetok : USSGrinnell (PC-1230) and USS PC-1177. Patrol Craft Force part of Task Force 77, with PT 40:...
the desktop is covered with red leather. Built at the same time as the Grinnell desk, the two desks together cost 380 pounds (equivalent to £47,780 in...
half of the 19th century who was best known for his command of the First Grinnell expedition in 1850, which was directed to ascertain what had happened to...
Grinnell financed a first polar expedition, which set out from New York in May 1850 under Lieutenant Edwin De Haven on the brigs USS Rescue and USS Advance...
purchase vessels, American merchant Henry Grinnell purchased two brigs, the 91-ton USS Rescue and 144-ton USS Advance, refitted them for Arctic service...
December 12, 1946, whereupon the USS Henderson and USS Cacapon set up weather monitoring stations. By December 24, the USS Currituck had begun launching...
sponsored by Jane Franklin 1853–1855: Second Grinnell expedition led by Elisha Kane looks for Franklin searching Grinnell Land 1857–1859: McClintock Arctic expedition...
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United States Navy on December 5, 1944, and commissioned the same day as USS Red Oak Victory (AK-235). Following a fitting-out period, Red Oak Victory...
hired by the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane for the 1853–1855 second Grinnell expedition to search for the lost Franklin expedition. He established his...
in the company of the USS Seahorse (SSN-669).[citation needed] On 6 May 1986 USS Archerfish (SSN 678), USS Ray (SSN 653) and USS Hawkbill (SSN-666) surfaced...
investigated by the FBI during the McCarthy era. Koenig attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, with a pre-med major. He transferred to UCLA and received...
HMS Resolute Kellett Belcher Kennedy Bellot Isabel Inglefield 2nd Grinnell expedition USS Advance Kane Fox McClintock HMS Pandora Young Fram Sverdrup Gjøa...
HMS Resolute Kellett Belcher Kennedy Bellot Isabel Inglefield 2nd Grinnell expedition USS Advance Kane Fox McClintock HMS Pandora Young Fram Sverdrup Gjøa...
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