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Beaufort (PCS 1387)
ex-PCS-1387



Call sign:
November - Tango - Quebec - Whiskey

ex-PC-1387

PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

  • The fourth Beaufort was planed as PC-1387 but reclassified PCS-1387 in April 1943
  • Laid down 22 May 1943 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, NY
  • Launched 10 October 1944
  • Commissioned USS PCS-1387, 27 November 1944
  • Named Beaufort 15 February 1956
  • Decommissioned 26 March 1956 at St. Petersburg, FL and placed in service as a naval reserve training ship
  • Struck from the Navy Register 15 July 1967 and moved to Naval Weapons Laboratory Dahlgren, VA for use as a target
  • Sold in July 1972 to Mr. David Hahn of Belize, British Honduras.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 245 t.
  • Length 136'
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 8' 7"
  • Speed 14.1 kts.
  • Complement 57
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, one 40mm mount, two 20mm 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
    PCS-1387 27k . Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WWII
    PCS-1387 95k Photographed circa the later 1940s.
    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.
    U.S. Navy photo NH 85019    		 Naval Historical Center
    PCS-1387 72k Photo from the collection of William Blackstock, SM2/c who served in Beaufort 14 March 1957 - 4 June 1958 Anna Hall
    PCS-1387 100k Somewhere in the Bahamas
    Photo caption: "No dock or piers but deep water so we moored to a large rock! A channel was being dredged for installing a dock for oil drilling rigs."
    Photo from the collection of William Blackstock, SM2/c who served in Beaufort 14 March 1957 - 4 June 1958
    PCS-1387 335k c. 1950s/1960s
    Key West, FL
    U.S. Navy photo    		 Original photo: Wikipedia
    Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
    PCS-1387
    1207138706    		 179k Underway on training cruise, probably off Florida in 1960s. Dave Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Anthony C. Kupris, USNR22 November 1944
    02LT Ray Halbert Bradshaw, USN.
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    View the Beaufort (PCS 1387)
    DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
    Naval Minewarfare Association
    Association of Minemen
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