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PCS-1442

PCS-1442 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, (date unknown) by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS PCS-1442, 29 May 1944. PCS-1442 was assigned to the Third Amphibious Fleet at Pearl Harbor and sent to the West Coast Sound Training Squadron on temporary duty. It remained there until November 1945 when it was sent to Adak, AK to act as a weather ship. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to South Korea, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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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