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Minah (MHC 14)
ex-Minah (AMCU 14)



AMCU-14 call sign:
Nan - Tare - Able - Able

ex-Minah (AMc 204)



AMc-204 call sign:
Nan - Zebra - George - Peter

ex-PCS-1465



PCS-1465 call sign:
Nan - Tare - Able - Able

ex-PC-1465

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/Harkness Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator):

  • Originally designated as Submarine Chaser, PC-1465
  • Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1465, 8 April 1943
  • Laid down 17 June 1943 at Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon
  • Launched 27 December 1943
  • Commissioned USS PCS-1465, 15 February 1944
  • Named Minah and reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper, AMc-204, 10 January 1945
  • Converted to a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) and reclassified, AMCU-14, 7 March 1952 at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY
  • Reclassified as a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-14, 7 February 1955
  • Decommissioned in September 1959 at Green Cove Springs, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1959
  • Sold 5 September 1960 to William J. Kleb of Wildwood, NJ
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 338 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 28' 4"
  • Draft 8' 7"
  • Speed 14.1 kts.
  • Complement 47
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 500bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Minah 91k
    Namesake:

    Minah - The myna; also spelled mynah is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Bangladesh . Several species have been introduced to areas like North America, Australia, South Africa, Fiji and New Zealand, especially the common myna which is often regarded as an invasive species. It is often known as "Selarang" and "Teck Meng" in Malay and Chinese respectively in Singapore, due to their high population there

    		 Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 12 November 2020
    Minah 37k AMc-204 John H. Burns, S1/c
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Donald L. Case, USNR15 February 1944
    02LCDR Marinus Pilkington, USNJanuary 1951
    03LCDR Leland Hart Sebring, USN1953
    04LT Robert Lightbourn Blanding, USN1954 - July 1956
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
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