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PCS-1457 / AGS-10 / AGSC-10 John Blish


PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 23 May 1943 at Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, WA.; Launched, 6 September 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1457, 26 February 1944.; Reclassified a Hydrographic Survey Ship AGS-10, 20 March 1945; Named John Blish, 24 March 1945; Reclassified as a Coastal Surveying Ship AGSC-10, 27 July 1946; Decommissioned, 22 August 1949; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Sold for scrapping, 10 February 1950 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 245 t.(lt) 338 t.(fl); Length 136'; Beam 24' 6"; Draft 8' 7"; Speed 14.1k; Complement 57; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.
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PCS-1457 113k Location/date unknown. Ramon Jackson
PCS-1457 113k Anchored at Okinawa
c. April-May 1945.
LTJG Dave Conrad, LCI(M)-1012
via LTJG Phil Dampf, LCI(M)-1010

View the PCS-1457
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
Ramon Jackson's
Navy Survey Ships (AGS) Designator Listing

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
USS John Blish (AGS 10) Web Site
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