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McMinnville (PCS 1401)
ex-PCS-1401
ex-YMS-452
Call sign:
November - Quebec - Yankee - Bravo
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down as Auxillary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-452 at South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA.; Redesignated as a Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1401, 23 June 1944; Launched 22 July 1944; Completed 13 February 1945; Commissioned USS PCS-1401, 21 February 1945 at Newport Beach.; Decommissioned 1 June 1955 at Chattanooga, TN and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Named McMinnville 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 1 August 1962; Sold 28 May 1963 to the Marine Exploration Co. of Miami, FL. 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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View the McMinnville (PCS 1401)
DANFS history entry located on the Naval Historical Center web site
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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