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PCS-1446

Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Xray - Queen

ex-PC-1446

PCS-1446 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

Laid down 30 January 1943 as PC-1446 by the San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, CA

Reclassified PCS-1446 in April 1943

Launched 31 July 1943

Commissioned USS PCS-1446, 19 April 1944

Selected for disposal in November 1948

Transferred to South Korea and named Mokseong (PCS 203) in 1952

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 245 t. (lt), 338 t. (fl)

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8' 7"

Speed 14.1 kts.

Complement 57

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 20mm gun mount, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS PCS-1446
	114k	PCS-1445 and 1446 are seen entering ARD-32 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 3 April 1947. They were in dock until 10 April 1947	Darryl L. Baker
1207144602	316k	PCS-1446 with a group of civilians aboard at Mare Island during the late 1940s. Official US Navy photo	Dave Wright
ROKN Mokseong (PCS 203)
	52k	c. 1967	Robert Hurst

Commanding Officers
01	LT H. W. Ingraham, USNR	1945


Courtesy of Joe Radigan

There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1446

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