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Conneaut (PCS 1444)
ex-YMS-474
ex-PCS-1444


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 14 May 1943 as Patrol Craft Sweeper, PCS-1444 by the Harbor Boatbuilding Co., Terminal Island, CA; Reclassified as an Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper, YMS-474, 7 October 1943; Launched 23 May 1944; Reclassified back to PCS-1444, 23 June 1944; Commissioned PCS-1444, (date unknown); Decommissioned in 1950; Named Conneaut, 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register 5 September 1957 and sold. 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 40mm gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two diesel engines, two shafts.


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