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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive

Coquille (PCS 1400)
ex-PCS-1400
ex-AMS-59
ex-PCS-1400
ex-YMS-451

Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Xray - William

ex-PCS-1400
ex-PC-1400

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper:

Originally planned as PC-1400 but reclassified PCS-1400 in April 1943

Laid down 22 September 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1400 by the South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA

Reclassified as a Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-451, 7 October 1943

Launched 20 May 1944

Reclassified back to PCS-1400, 23 June 1944

Completed 26 December 1944

Commissioned USS PCS-1400, 2 January 1945

Reclassified as a Motor Minesweeper, AMS-59, 2 September 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 16 September 1947

Loaned to commercial interests 17 September 1947

Returned to U.S. Navy custody 14 April 1952

Reinstated on the Naval Register 4 November 1953 as PCS-1400

Named Coquille 15 February 1956

Struck from the Naval Register 2 July 1956

Sold 28 May 1963

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 270 t.

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8' 7"

Speed 14.1 kts.

Complement 57

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 20mm gun mount, 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.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
YMS-451
	314k	20 May 1944 Launch day The ships sponsor was Mrs. Robert Boyd (holding champagne bottle) and 3rd from the right is Raymond P. Greene, Assistant Chief Inspector, Terminal Island Navy Yard	Kathleen Greene
USS PCS-1400
	218k	24 January 1947 Off the Puget Sound Navy Yard U.S. Navy photo NH 55385	Naval History and Heritage Command