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PCS-1424



Call sign:
November - Tango - Victor - Charlie
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 3 February 1943 by the Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wisc.; Launched 19 June 1943; Delivered 12 November 1943; Commissioned 13 December 1943. She served in the Atlantic coast area for the remainder of World War II and into the first year of the post-war era. Decommissioned in April 1946; Struck from the Naval Register in May 1946; Transferred to the U. S. Maritime Commission and sold in November 1946. 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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PCS-1424 149k Photographed by her builder, Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, WI, 24 November 1943
US Navy Photo # NH 96491		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1424 121k Photographed by her builder, Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, WI, 24 November 1943. Note that she is fitted with Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket launchers forward
US Navy photo # NH 97492.		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1424 65k Photographed circa November 1943
Courtesy William H. Davis, 1977
US Navy photo # NH 85433.		 Naval Historical Center
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