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USC&GS Bowie (CSS 27)
ex-USS PCS-1405

Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Sugar - Xray

PCS-1405 served both the U. S. Navy and the Coast & Geodetic Survey.

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

Planned as PC-1405 but reclassified PCS-1405 in April 1943

Laid down 1 May 1943 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Co., Greenport, Long Island, NY

Launched 21 August 1943

Commissioned USS PCS-1405, 1 February 1944

After shaking down in the Caribbean Sea she operated on patrol and escort duty between southern Florida and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In June 1945 PCS-1405 went to the Pacific, where she was based at

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for some six months. Returning to the West Coast in February 1946, she was modified for survey work

Decommissioned in August 1946, transferred to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), and named USC&GS Bowie (CSS 27)

Struck from the Navy Register in February 1947

Decommissioned 1 February 1967 and sold

Presently on the Fraser River in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 245 t. (lt), 338 t. (fl)

Length 136'

Beam 24' 6"

Draft 8' 7"

Speed 14.1 kts.

Complement 57

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm gun mount, two 20mm gun mounts, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog), and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS PCS-1405
	155k	Moored inboard of PCS-1414	Steve Franklin
	116k	In San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1945-1946 Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977 U.S. Navy photo 85161	Naval Historical Center
	209k	PCS-1405 (left) and PCS-1450 (right) are seen at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 21 Aug 1946. They were at the shipyard for decommissioning from 4 May to 9 Aug 1946 and were transferred to the Coast & Geodetic Survey per shipyard logs	Darryl L. Baker
	150k	PCS-1450 (left) and PCS-1405 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 21 August 1946, after being converted for use by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. White outlines on PCS-1450 mark recent alterations U.S. Navy photos NH 99209, NH 99210 and NH 99211	Naval Historical Center
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USC&GS Bowie (CSS 27)
	67k	USC&GS Bowie with Golden Gate bridge in background	NOAA
	87k	USC&GS Bowie at dress ship for 4th of July.
	79k	USC&GS Bowie
	78k	c. 1965 Bowie bow visible at left and USC&GSS Hodgson (CSS-26) tied up pierside NOAA photo	Robert Hurst
MV Bowie
	25k	c. January 2003 Slatery Bay, near Powell River, British Columbia MV Bowie Website	Robert Hurst