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PCS-1450



Call sign:
November - Tango - Yankee - Charlie



PCS-1450 served both the U. S. Navy and the Coast & Geodetic Survey.

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 16 February 1943 by the Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, WI; Launched, 14 August 1943; Delivered in January 1944; Commissioned USS PCS-1450, 3 February 1944. She made a shakedown and training cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then was assigned to duty as a patrol and escort ship operating between Key West, Florida, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In June 1945, after the end of World War II in Europe had ended the need for anti-submarine activity in the Atlantic area, she was sent to the Pacific. She served in the Hawaiian Islands from late July 1945 until the beginning of February 1946 and was converted for survey employment following her return to the U.S. mainland. Decommissioned in August 1946, transferred to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and named USC&GS Hodgson; Struck from the Naval Register in February 1947. 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 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-1450
PCS-1450 133k In San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1945-1946.
U.S. Navy photo NH 85164		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 209k PCS-1405 (left) and PCS-1450 (right) are seen at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 21 Aug 1946. They were at the shipyard for decommissioning from 4 May to 9 Aug 1946 and were transferred to the Coast & Geodetic Survey per shipyard logs. Darryl L. Baker
PCS-1405/1450 150k PCS-1450 (left) and PCS-1405 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines on PCS-1450 mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99209		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 158k PCS-1450 (left) and PCS-1405 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines on PCS-1405 mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99210		 Naval Historical Center
PCS-1405/1450 159k PCS-1405 (left) and PCS-1450 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines mark recent alterations.
U.S. Navy photo NH 99211		 Naval Historical Center
USC&GS Hodgson
PCS-1450 110k . NOAA
There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1450.
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