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Minah (MHC 14)
ex-AMCU-14
AMCU-14 call sign:
November - Tango - Alpha - Alpha
ex-Minah (AMc 204)
AMc-204 call sign:
November - Zulu - Golf - Papa
ex-PCS-1465
PCS-1465 call sign:
November - Tango - Alpha - Alpha
ex-PC-1465
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper/Harkness Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Originally designated as Submarine Chaser,
PC-1465; Redesignated 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 and reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator), 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.; 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. 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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John H. Burns, S1/c |
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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
