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PC-1258



Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Jig - Sugar
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 28 December 1943 by Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT
  • Launched 23 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS PC-1258, 24 January 1945
  • Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater during World War II and participated in the Palau Islands operation
  • Struck from the Naval Register 12 April 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 21 June 1948, sold to the Wilson Excursion Line of Wilmington, DE
  • Named Boston Belle in 1949
  • Sold to the City of Rosario, Argentina in 1961 for use as an excursion boat but was never used as such
  • Sold in 1970 to Ferrylineas S.A. of Buenos Aires, Argentina and renamed Cuidad de Rosario
  • Taken out of service in 1982 and laid up in the Riachuelo River, near Buenos Aires
  • Destroyed in 2007.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 450 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, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 7719 and 7720), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts
    1949 - Engines replaced during conversion to Boston Belle with two 1,440bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Boston Belle
    PC-1258 98k Boston Belle Bob Daly/PC-1181
    PC-1258 118k c. 1949
    Postcard
    Luxury Liner "Boston Belle"

    America's newest, ultra-modern, all-steel, luxurious "Princess Liner", serving artistic provincetown and Historic PLYMOUTH. Capacity 3000...immaculately clean...spacious SUN DECK ....ultimate in solid comfort and relaxation. Nightly MOONLIGHT Dance Cruises, except Sundays, with music by New England's finest orchestras in the World's Largest Marine Ballroom.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Cuidad de Rosario
    PC-1258 58k Line drawing
    Photo courtesy History and Archaeology Maritima    		 Tommy Trampp
    PC-1258 57k c. 1974
    Photo courtesy History and Archaeology Maritima
    PC-1258 55k
    PC-1258 82k Photos courtesy History and Archaeology Maritima
    PC-1258 141k
    There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-1258
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