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Provincetown (PCS 1378)
ex-PCS-1378
Call sign:
November - Tango - Papa - Victor
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 13 February 1943 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Launched 18 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1378, 9 February 1944; Decommissioned in March 1946 at Green Cove Springs FL.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs; Recommissioned in January 1952; Decommissioned 14 May 1954 at Green Cove Springs; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; Named Provincetown 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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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
Naval Minewarfare Association
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