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PCSC-1391
ex-PCS-1391


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down by the Robert Jacobs Shipyard, City Island, Bronx, NY; Commissioned PCS-1391 in February 1944. Briefly performed antisubmarine and escort duties in the Caribbean before transiting the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. While en route to the war zone, she was fitted for use as a control vessel during amphibious operations. In October 1944 PCS-1391 took part in the Leyte invasion, escorting and controlling landing craft on their way to the landing beach. She performed similar work during the Lingayen Gulf operation in January 1945. At Okinawa at the beginning of April PCS-1391 carried the Commanding General of the First Marine Division during the initial assault landings. The rest of World War II was spent on landing craft direction service off Okinawa, and on patrol and escort duties in the central and western Pacific. Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCSC-1391 in August 1945. Between September 1945 and January 1946 PCSC-1391 was engaged in the occupation of Japan. Transferred to the Maritime Commission in April 1948 and sold. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 251 t.; Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14k; Complement 57; Armament one 40mm, two 20mm, four dcp, one dcp (hh), two dct; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.


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PCS-1391 95k Photographed circa 1945-1946.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 85160
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