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



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Yoke - Xray

ex-PC-1457

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

  • Originally planned as PC-1457 but reclassified as PCS-1457 in April 1943
  • 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 14.1 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.
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    USS PCS-1457
    PCS-1457 110k 21 February 1944 Robert Hurst
    PCS-1457 113k . Ramon Jackson
    USS John Blish (AGS 10)
    PCS-1457 113k c. April/May 1945
    Anchored at Okinawa still wearing her old hull number    		 LTJG Dave Conrad, LCI(M)-1012
    via LTJG Phil Dampf, LCI(M)-1010
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