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Beaufort (PCS 1387)
ex-PCS-1387


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down in 1944 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY; Delivered and commissioned USS PCS-1387 in November 1944. Served in the Atlantic Fleet for more than a decade. The ship was transferred to Naval Reserve Training duty, assigned to the Sixth Naval District in 1955. Named Beaufort, 15 February 1956. Continuing her training service into the mid-1960s. Struck from the Naval Register in July 1967. Reportedly later expended as a target, she was also reported to have been sold (possibly as a wreck) in July 1972.

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-1387 27k - Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
PCS-1387 95k Photographed circa the later 1940s.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 85019
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for Beaufort (PCS 1387)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

Naval Minewarfare Association
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