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USC&GS Bowie
ex-USS PCS-1405



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Sugar - Xray



PCS-1405 served both the U. S. Navy and the Coast & Geodetic Survey.

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 1 May 1943 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY; Launched 21 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1405, 1 February 1944; After shaking down in the Caribbean Sea she operated on patrol and escort duty between southern Florida and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In June 1945 PCS-1405 went to the Pacific, where she was based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for some six months. Returning to the West Coast in February 1946, she was modified for survey work. Decommissioned in August 1946, transferred to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), and named Bowie; Struck from the Navy Register in February 1947; Decommissioned from the USC&GS in 1965. Presently on the Fraser River in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 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 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 engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCS-1405
PCS-1405/1450 116k In San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1945-1946.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.
U.S. Navy photo 85161		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 209k PCS-1405 (left) and PCS-1450 (right) are seen at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 21 Aug 1946. They were at the shipyard for decommissioning from 4 May to 9 Aug 1946 and were transferred to the Coast & Geodetic Survey per shipyard logs. Darryl L. Baker
PCS-1405/1450 150k PCS-1450 (left) and PCS-1405 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines on PCS-1450 mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99209		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 158k PCS-1450 (left) and PCS-1405 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines on PCS-1405 mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99210		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 159k PCS-1405 (left) and PCS-1450 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99211		 Naval Historical Center
USC&GS Bowie
PCS-1405/1450 67k USC&GS Bowie with Golden Gate bridge in background. NOAA
PCS-1405/1450 87k USC&GS Bowie at dress ship for 4th of July. NOAA
PCS-1405/1450 79k USC&GS Bowie. NOAA
MV Bowie
PCS-1405/1450 25k c. January 2003
Slatery Bay, near Powell River, British Columbia
MV Bowie Web Site photo		 Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1405
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