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PCS-1399
ex-YMS-450



YMS-450 call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Xray - Roger

ex-PCS-1399


PCS-1399 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



Tarlac call sign:
Delta - Uniform - November - Yankee
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 7 August 1943 as PCS-1399 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-450, 7 October 1943; Launched, 15 April 1944; Classification changed back to Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1399, 23 June 1944; Completed and commissioned USS PCS-1399, 25 November 1944; Transferred to the Philippines, 22 January 1948 as Tarlac (P 11); Scrapped in 1969.

Specifications: Displacement 338 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14k; Complement 57; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm mount, 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-1399 59k . Ed LeFave
There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1399.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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