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PCS-1455



Call sign:
November - Tango - Yankee - Romeo
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 17 March 1943 by the Mojean and Ericson Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, WA; Launched 4 September 1943; Commissioned 8 February 1944. 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-1455 45k c. October 1945
Shangha, China		 Richard Scovil
PCS-1455 93k . Richard Scovil
PCS-1455 109k . Richard Scovil
PCS-1455 80k . Richard Scovil
PCS-1455 175k . Richard Scovil
PCS-1455 177k From Richard Scovil's Navy scrap book. Scott Wardingley
PCS-1455 99k From Richard Scovil's Navy scrap book. Scott Wardingley
PCS-1455 57k From Richard Scovil's Navy scrap book. Scott Wardingley
PCS-1455 98k From Richard Scovil's Navy scrap book. Scott Wardingley
There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1455.
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