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Medrick (AMc 203)



AMc-203 call sign:
November - Yankee - November - November

ex-PCS-1464



PCS-1464 call sign:
November - Tango - Zulu - Uniform
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 22 May 1943 at Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched, 11 October 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1464, 8 January 1944 at Seattle, WA; Named Medrick and reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, AMc-203, 10 January 1945; Decommissioned, 9 July 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 28 August 1946; Delivered to the Maritime Commission, 10 December 1947 for disposal.
Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 338 t.; Length 136'; Beam 28' 4"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 47; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines,
two shafts.

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USS PCS-1464
Medrick 51k Neah Bay, WA.
The fawn in the photo wandered on to the pier.		 John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmember 1945 - 1946
Medrick 63k . John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmember 1945 - 1946
USS Medrick (AMc 203)
Medrick 54k . John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmember 1945 - 1946
Medrick Crew 53k Christmas 1945
Wakanoura, Japan for Kobe sweep operations.
Part of Medrick's crew.
Front - (l to r) John Burns and Willie Carhuff
Center - Kern, unknown, Ed Lightman, Chico Fernandez, and unknown
Back - Weber, unknown, unknown, Bill Daniel, unknown, and Luther Tweed		 John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmwmber 1945 - 1946
News Article 63k News article on sweeping mines at Kobe, Japan. John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmwmber 1945 - 1946
View the Medrick (AMc 203)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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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