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PCS-1442



Call sign:
November - Tango - Xray - Echo


PCS-1442 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 10 March 1943 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched 11 November 1943; Commissioned 29 May 1944. Assigned to the Third Amphibious Fleet at Pearl Harbor and sent to the West Coast Sound Training Squadron on temporary duty. It remained there until November 1945 when it was sent to Adak, AK to act as a weather ship. Transferred to South Korea. 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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PCS-1442 66k At sea. Al Bellanca
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