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PCS-1445


PCS-1445 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper: Laid down, 30 January 1943 by the San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, CA; Launched, 19 June 1943; Commissioned PCS-1445, 9 March 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Loaned to the Republic of Korea, May 1952; Renamed Kum Seong and served in the Korean Navy into the 1970s; 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 two diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCS-1445 81k Underway off the U.S. west coast, c. 1944-45. She has been fitted with a Hedgehog mounting forward, in place of her 3"/50 gun.
USN Photo NH 96492.
Naval Historical Center
PCS-1445/1446 114k PCS-1445 and 1446 are seen entering ARD-32 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 3 April 1947. They were in dock until 10 Apr 1947. Darryl L. Baker

There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1445 at 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

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Patrol Craft Sailors Association

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