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PC / PCS-1465
Minah (AMc 204)
AMCU / MHC-14



AMc-204 call sign:
November - Zulu - Golf - Papa




AMCU-14 call sign:
November - Tango - Alpha - Alpha



PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper / Harkness Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Originally designated as Submarine Chaser PC-1465; Redesignated PCS-1465, 8 April 1943; Laid down, 17 June 1943 at Astoria Marine Construction Co., Astoria, Oregon; Launched, 27 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCS-1465, 15 February 1944; Named and reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper USS Minah (AMc-204), 10 January 1945; Converted and reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) AMCU-14, 7 March 1952 at the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY; Reclassified a Coastal Minehunter MHC-14, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, September 1959 at Green Cove Springs, FL.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL.; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 November 1959; Sold, 5 September 1960 to William J. Kleb. 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 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount, four 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 500 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.
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Minah 37k AMc-204 John H. Burns, S1/c

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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
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