USS PCS-1425 was a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol ship in service during World War II.[1] Her keel was laid in 1943 as PC-1425, before being reclassified three months later as a "patrol craft sweeper" (PCS). After the war, the ship served as a test platform for the development of naval radios, being the first ship to demonstrate the use of an automatically aligning UHF directional antenna.[2]
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Name | USS PC-1425 |
Builder | Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co., Kingston, New York |
Laid down | 22 January 1943 |
Renamed | USS PCS-1425, April 1943 |
Reclassified | Patrol craft sweeper (PCS), April 1943 |
Launched | 20 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 4 February 1944 |
Fate | Transferred to War Shipping Administration January 1947 |
History | |
Puget Sound Naval Academy Training Ship | |
Owner | Puget Sound Naval Academy |
Acquired | 1950 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PCS-1376-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 252 tons |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14.1 knots (26.1 km/h) |
Complement | 57 |
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In 1950, she was leased to the Puget Sound Naval Academy for use as a training ship.[3]
References
edit- ^ Gebhard, Louis (1979). Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory. Naval Research Laboratory. p. 107.
- ^ "Puget Sound Naval Academy". Archived from the original on 2005-02-23.
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