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Beaufort (PCS 1387)
ex-PCS-1387



Call sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Whiskey
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 22 May 1943 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Launched 10 October 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1387, 27 November 1944; Named Beaufort 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 26 March 1956 at St. Petersburg, FL and placed in service and a naval reserve training ship; Struck from the Navy Register 15 July 1967 and moved to Naval Weapons Laboratory Dahlgren, VA for use as a target; Sold in July 1972 to Mr. David Hahn of Belize, British Honduras.

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, two 20mm, 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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PCS-1387 27k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
PCS-1387 95k Photographed circa the later 1940s.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 85019		 Naval Historical Center
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DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center web site
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
Association of Minemen
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