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PCS-1429



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Victor - Roger
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 12 February 1943 by the Gibbs Gas Engine Corp., Jacksonville, FL; Launched 16 July 1943; Delivered and commissioned 9 February 1944; Decommissioned 11 December 1945 at Napa, CA. 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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"The Wartime Journal"
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