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Amistead Rust (AGS 9)
ex-PCS-1404



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Sugar - Uncle
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down at Colberg Boat Works, Stockton, CA.; Launched 12 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1404, 30 March 1944; Reclassified as a Hydrographic Survey Ship, AGS-9 and named Amistead Rust, 20 March 1945; Decommissioned 9 June 1946 at Naval Station Subic Bay, Philippines; Sold, 27 October 1948. 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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USS PCS-1404
PCS-1404 40k c. 1944. Robert Hurst
USS Amistead Rust (AGS 9)
Amistead Rust 74k c. 1945.
Her patrol boat lines are readily apparent.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 84645		 DANFS
View the Amistead Rust (AGS-9)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway 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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