USS PCS-1425

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]

USS PCS-1425 in San Francisco Bay, California, c. 1945-46[1]
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:

In 1950, she was leased to the Puget Sound Naval Academy for use as a training ship.[3]

See also

References
  1. "NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Sweeper Photo Archive: PCS-1425". Archived from the original on 2019-10-14.
  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 2005-02-23.
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