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Coquille (PCS 1400)
ex-AMS-59
ex-PCS-1400
ex-YMS-451
Call sign:
Nan - Queen - Xray - William
ex-PCS-1400
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper: 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 Navy Register 16 September 1947; Loaned to commercial interests 17 September 1947; Returned to U.S. Navy custody 14 April 1952; Reinstated on the Navy Register 4 November 1953 as PCS-1400; Named Coquille 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 2 July 1956; Sold 28 May 1963. Fate unknown.
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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