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PCS-1464 / AMc-203 Medrick



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

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 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 500 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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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 PCS-1464 John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmember 1945 - 1946
Medrick 54k AMc-203 John H. Burns, S1/c
Crewmember 1945 - 1946
Medrick Crew 53k Part of Medrick's crew. Christmas 1945, Wakanoura, Japan for Kobe sweep operations.
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 PCS-1464 / Medrick (AMc 203)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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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