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PCS-1460



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Zebra - Item
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 9 April 1943 by the Western Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA; Launched 28 August 1943; Delivered and commissioned 28 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 40mm gun mount (later removed and replaced by a radio shack), 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, diesel engines, two shafts.

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PCS-1460 105k 23 February 1944
Sea Trials Brochure		 Lester Alexander
PCS-1460 115k 23 February 1944
Sea Trials Brochure		 Lester Alexander
PCS-1460 45k c. 1944 Lester Alexander
PCS-1460 112k . Jeanne Trump
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