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PCS / EPCS-1431 Grafton


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down 12 May 1943 at Gibbs Gas Engine Corp., Jacksonville, FL..; Launched 2 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1431, 24 March 1944.; Decommissioned 13 July 1955 and placed in service as a naval reserve training vessel; Renamed USS Grafton (PCS-1431), 15 February 1956; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Sweeper EPCS-1431, (date unknown); Placed out of service, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1965; Sold April 1966. 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, diesel.


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PCS-1431 44k U.S. Navy photo from the July 1951 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan

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