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PCSC-1389
ex-PCS-1389



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Roger - Baker

ex-PC-1389

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

  • Laid down 27 February 1943 as PC-1389 by the Robert Jacob Shipyard, City Island, Bronx, NY
  • Reclassified PCS-1389 in April 1943
  • Launched 18 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS PCS-1389, 10 January 1944
  • Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCSC-1389 20 August 1945
  • Decommissioned at Mare Island, CA
  • Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in April 1948
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 338 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8' 7"
  • Speed 14 kts.
  • Complement 57
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm mount, two 20mm mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), and 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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    Commanding Officers
    01LT A. L. Goldstein, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1389
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    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
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