- Construction and commissioning
- United States Navy service
- United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service
- See also
- References
- External links
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=USS PCS-1450.tiff | PCS-1450 in San Francisco Bay, California, {{circa>1945-46}}
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | PCS-1376|minesweeper|1}} | Ship displacement=320 t. | Ship tons burthen= | 136|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 24|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | 8|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Knobstedt single reduction gear | 14.1|kn|km/h}} | Ship complement=57 | Ship armament=*1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount- 1 × 20 mm gun mount
- 4 × depth charge projectors
- 4 × Hedgehog
- 2 × depth charge tracks
}} | 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. 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 commissioningThe 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 servicePCS-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 serviceThe 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 - List of United States Navy ships
References 1. ^1 2 3 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
External links - Photo gallery of USS PCS-1450 and USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26) at Navsource Online
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