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USC&GS Derickson (AGS 6)
Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - How - William
ex-USC&GS Derickson
ex-PCS-1458
Derickson served only with the United States Coast and Geodetic.
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/Survey Ship: Laid down 25 April 1943 as PCS-1458 by the Ballard Marine Railway Company, Seattle, WA; Launched, 6 November 1943; Loaned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey 17 May 1944 and commissioned USC&GS Derickson. Named for Commander Richard B. Derickson (1873-1942), USC&GS, who rendered distinguished service in field assignments along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and in the South Pacific Ocean, and had notable achievements as Assistant Chief of the Coast and Geodetic Survey's Hydrographic Division and Director of Coast Surveys in the Philippine Islands. Reclassified as a Survey Ship, AGS-6, 27 May 1944; Struck from the Navy Register and permanently transferred to Department of Commerce, 23 November 1948; Sold in 1954 for $23,896.99. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament 20mm gun mounts or smaller; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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
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