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PCS-1402



Call sign:
November - Tango - Sierra - Oscar

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 24 March 1943 by the Colberg Boat Works, Stockton, CA; Launched 11 August 1943; Commissioned 13 January 1944. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one single 40mm gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engine, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.


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PCS-1397 113k September 1945
D Day, Okinawa
Hagushi Harbor, western side
Bill Kinney SC-1281
via E. J. Comeau PC552/1228

There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1402
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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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