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USS PCS-1425 in San Francisco Bay, California, c. 1945-46
History
United States Navy
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	2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed	14.1 knots (26.1 km/h)
Complement	57
Armament	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount 1 × 20 mm gun mount 4 × depth charge projectors 1 × Hedgehog 2 × depth charge tracks

USS PCS-1425 was a United States Navy minesweeper and patrol ship in service during World War II. 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.

In 1950, she was leased to the Puget Sound Naval Academy for use as a training ship.

References

1. ^ "NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Sweeper Photo Archive: PCS-1425". Archived from the original on 15 October 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
2. Gebhard, Louis (1979). Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory. Naval Research Laboratory. p. 107.
3. "Puget Sound Naval Academy". Archived from the original on 23 February 2005.

External links

• Photo gallery on navsource.org

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