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Attica (PCS 1383)
ex-PCS-1383



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Queen - King
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 27 March 1943 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone Long Island NY; Launched 23 June 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1383, 7 August 1944 at New York Navy Yard; Decommissioned 23 February 1947 at Norfolk, VA; Placed in service 31 July 1947; Placed out of service 28 February 1950 at Norfolk; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk Group; Transferred in May 1950 to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL.; Named Attica 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 19 July 1956. 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 mount, one single 40mm gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts, 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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Attica 116k PCS-1383 Christmas card Tom Markham
Attica 401k Back of Christmas card Tom Markham
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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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