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Hampton (PCS-1386)
ex-PCS-1386



Call sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Tango
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 15 May 1943 at Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone Long Island NY; Launched 28 September 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1386, 4 November 1944; Named Hampton, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 27 April 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1959. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 340 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 59; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm 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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PCS-1386 202k c. 1955
Key West, FL		 John Murphy
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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
Association of Minemen
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