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PCS-1388 / AGS-7 Littlehales


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 17 December 1942 at Robert Jacob Inc., City Island, NY; Launched, 17 July 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1388, 11 December 1943; Redesignated as a Hydrographic Survey Ship AGS-7, 28 February 1945; Named Littlehales, 24 March 1945; Decommissioned, 12 October 1949; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold, 24 January 1950 to Haylew Fisheries Inc., Reedville, VA. 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-1388 76k Photo courtesy of the City Island Nautical Museum Tom Nye
PCS-1388 92k Seen here as PCS-1388 off Iwo Jima
US Navy photo
Ramon Jackson

View the PCS-1388
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
Navy Survey Ships (AGS) Designator Listing


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