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Dutton (AGSC 8)
ex-AGS-8
ex-PCS-1396


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down at South Coast Co., Newport Beach, CA.; Launched 7 August 1943; Commissioned PCS-1396, 29 March 1944; Reclassified as a Hydrographic Survey Ship, AGS-8, 20 March 1945; Named Dutton 24 March 1945; Damaged off Okinawa 27 May 1945 by a Japanese Kamikaze at 26° 00' N., 128° 00' E.; Reclassified as a Coastal Surveying Ship, AGSC-8, 29 July 1946; Decommissioned 26 August 1949 at New York; Sold 21 February 1950. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 59; 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, two shafts.


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PCS-1396 123k Dutton (AGS 8) Terry D. Gann

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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
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Association of Minemen
Ramon Jackson's
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