USS PCS-1450

USS PCS-1450, ex-PC-1450, was a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1944 to 1946. She saw service in the latter stages of World War II.

USS PCS-1450 in San Francisco Bay, California, c. 1945-46
History
United States Navy
Name: USS PC-1450
Builder: Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Laid down: 16 February 1943
Renamed: USS PCS-1450, April 1943
Reclassified: Patrol craft sweeper (PCS), April 1943
Launched: 14 August 1943
Acquired: January 1944 (delivered)
Commissioned: 3 February 1944
Decommissioned: August 1946
Stricken: February 1947
Fate: Transferred to U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey August 1946
History
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Name: USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26)
Namesake: Commander Carey V. Hodgson (1880–1929), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps officer
Acquired: August 1946
Fate: Sold 1967
General characteristics
Class and type: PCS-1376-class minesweeper
Displacement: 320 t.
Length: 136 ft (41 m)
Beam: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft: 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: 14.1 knots (26.1 km/h)
Complement: 57
Armament:

After her Navy service, PCS-1450 was transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, where she saw service as the coastal survey ship USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26) from 1946 to 1967.

Construction and commissioning

The ship was laid down as PC-1450 on 16 February 1943 by the Burger Boat Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Reclassified as a "patrol craft sweeper" (PCS) in April 1943 and redesignated PCS-1450, she was launched on 14 August 1943 and commissioned as USS PCS-1450 on 3 February 1944.[1]

United States Navy service

PCS-1450 made a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then operated between Key West, Florida, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a patrol and escort ship until June 1945. She then was transferred to the Hawaiian Islands, where she served from late July 1945 until February 1946 before returning to the United States.[1]

After undergoing conversion into a survey ship, PCS-1450 was decommissioned in August 1946 and transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey the same month. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in February 1947.[1]

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service

The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey commissioned the vessel in August 1946 as the coastal survey ship USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26). Hodgson served on hydrographic survey duties along the United States West Coast and in Alaska until 1967, when she was decommissioned and sold.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Sweeper Photo Archive: USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26) ex-USS PCS-1450 ex-PC-1450
  2. NOAA History: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Hodgson
USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26)
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.