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Rushville (PCS 1380)
ex-PCS-1380



Call sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Bravo
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 27 February 1943 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Launched 25 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1380, 22 March 1944; Decommissioned 21 March 1946; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned in January 1947; Decommissioned 15 July 1954 at Stockton, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton Group; Named Rushville 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 5 September 1957; Sold for scrap 29 April 1958 to Western Contracting Corp. of Sioux City, Iowa.

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 40mm 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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Rushville 76k 20 April 1945 Robert Hurst
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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
Association of Minemen
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