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Hollidaysburg (PCS 1385)
ex-PCS-1385



Call sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Quebec
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 8 May 1943 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Launched 26 August 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1385, 5 October 1944; Named Hollidaysburg 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 6 April 1956 and placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training ship at Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio; Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1970. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1 kts.; Complement 57; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm mount, two 20mm mounts, four dcp, one dcp (hh), two dct; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Hollidaysburg 103k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Hollidaysburg 46k c. July 1969
At Toronto, Canada		 David E. Learn, USNR
Hollidaysburg 46k c. August 1969
On Lake Erie, near Toledo, OH		 David E. Learn, USNR
View the Hollidaysburg (PCS-1385)
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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