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PCS-1377



Call sign:
November - Tango - Papa - Sierra

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 13 February 1943 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Launched 14 October 1943; Commissioned 19 January 1944. Fate unknown.

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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PCS-1377 76k c. September/October 1945
San Diego, CA.
In dry dock having fore peak repaired after collision in rough seas when they collided with the fuel ship.
Calvin Stoeckel via Brian Bayer

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