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Grafton (EPCS 1431)
ex-PCS-1431



Call sign:
November - Tango - Victor - Xray
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 12 May 1943 at Gibbs Gas Engine Corp., Jacksonville, FL..; Launched 2 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1431, 24 March 1944.; Decommissioned 13 July 1955 and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Named Grafton 15 February 1956; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Sweeper, EPCS-1431; Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1965; Sold in April 1966. 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 engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCS-1431
PCS-1431 44k U.S. Navy photo from the July 1951 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
USS Grafton (EPCS 1431)
PCS-1431 105k U.S. Navy photo 441720 David Buell
View the Grafton (PCS-1431)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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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