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PCSC-1461
ex-PCS-1461



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Zebra - Love

ex-PC-1461

Destroyed 19 December 1945
PCS-1376 Class Patrol Craft Sweeper:

  • Laid down 25 March 1943 as PC-1461 by the Bellingham Marine Railway and Boatbuilding Co., Bellingham, WA
  • Reclassified PCS-1461 in April 1943
  • Launched 15 September 1943
  • Commissioned USS PCS-1461, 1 February 1944
  • Damaged in collision 23 February 1945 off Iwo Jima and again by friendly fire the same day
  • Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCSC-1461, 20 August 1945
  • Grounded 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise off Okinawa
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 December 1945 and destroyed.

    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, two depth charge projectors, and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PCS-1461 277k c. 1943
    Bellingham, WA after commissioning    		 Rick Brenden, AM1, USCG, Ret.
    PCS-1461 456k 7 February 1944
    The Mousetraps, right forward, are shrouded. There are pipe racks for the single 40mm and two 20mm guns, and two depth-charge projectors just forward of the after end of the bulwark
    Photos from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman    		 Robert Hurst
    PCS-1461 416k
    Commanding Officers
    01LT W. S. Harrison, USNR1945
    Courtesy of Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for PCS-1461
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