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PCS-1404 / AGS-9 Amistead Rust


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down at Colberg Boat Works, Stockton, CA.; Commissioned USS PCS-1404, 30 March 1944; Reclassified as a Hydrographic Survey Ship and named USS Amistead Rust (AGS-9), 20 March 1945; Decommissioned, 9 June 1946 at Subic Bay Naval Station, PI; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 27 October 1948. 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.
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Amistead Rust 74k c. 1945.
Seen as AGS-9. Her patrol boat lines are readily apparent.
US Navy Photo NH 84645
DANFS

View the PCS-1404
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793

Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
Ramon Jackson's
Navy Survey Ships (AGS) Designator Listing

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