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Winder (PCS 1376)
ex-PCS-1376



Call sign:
November - Tango - Papa - Papa
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 13 October 1942 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island NY; Launched 3 April 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1376, 9 July 1943; Decommissioned 28 February 1947 at Norfolk, VA.; Placed in service 10 June 1947 as a naval reserve training vessel; Placed out of service 4 January 1950; Transferred in May 1950 to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL.; Named Winder 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 5 September 1957; Sold for scrap 15 April 1958 to Fred Irvine of Miami, FL.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t. (lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 20mm gun mount, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Winder 66k c. 1943 Joe Radigan
Winder 63k c. 1943 Joe Radigan
Winder 72k c. 1943 Joe Radigan
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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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