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John Blish (AGSC 10)
ex-AGS-10
ex-PCS-1457



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Yoke - Xray
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 23 May 1943 at Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, WA.; Launched, 6 September 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1457, 26 February 1944.; Reclassified as a Hydrographic Survey Ship, AGS-10, 20 March 1945; Named John Blish 24 March 1945; Reclassified as a Coastal Surveying Ship, AGSC-10, 27 July 1946; Decommissioned, 22 August 1949; Sold for scrap 10 February 1950 to Boston Metals Co.
of Baltimore, MD.

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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For Full Size Image		 Size Image Description Source
PCS-1457 110k 21 February 1944 Robert Hurst
PCS-1457 113k . Ramon Jackson
PCS-1457 113k c. April/May 1945
Anchored at Okinawa		 LTJG Dave Conrad, LCI(M)-1012
via LTJG Phil Dampf, LCI(M)-1010
View the John Blish (AGSC 10)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Ramon Jackson's
Navy Survey Ships (AGS) Designator Listing
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
USS John Blish (AGS 10) Web Site
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