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PCS-1461



Call sign:
November - Tango - Zulu - Lima

Lost in December 1945
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 25 March 1943 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA; Launched 15 September 1943; Commissioned 1 February 1944; Damaged in collision 23 February 1945 off Iwo Jima; Damaged by friendly fire 28 February 1945 off Iwo Jima; Grounded 4 October 1945 during Typhoon off Okinawa; Lost in December 1945.

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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