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Littlehales (AGS 7)
ex-PCS-1388
Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Queen - Zebrau
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/Survey Ship: Laid down, 17 December 1942 at Robert Jacob Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 17 July 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1388, 11 December 1943; Redesignated as a Hydrographic Survey Ship, AGS-7, 28 February 1945; Named Littlehales, 24 March 1945; Decommissioned, 12 October 1949; Sold, 24 January 1950 to Haylow Fisheries Inc., Reedville, VA; Converted to a menhaden fisherman and renamed John - O. 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, two 20mm gun mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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View the PCS-1388
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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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