Name USS PCS-1379 Acquired March 1944 Fate Unknown Launched 4 February 1944 Builders Whitestone, Long Island | Laid down 25 February 1943 Commissioned 6 March 1944 Construction started 25 February 1943 Length 42 m | |
Class and type PCS-1376 class patrol craft sweeper | ||
USS PCS-1379 was the fourth of twelve patrol craft sweepers constructed by Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation, Whitestone, Long Island, New York.
She was one of a total of 59 of this type to be delivered to the Navy by various shipyards. PCS-1376 through 1387 were designed as submarine chasers, but were launched after the need for coastal escorts had passed.
PCS-1379 spent much of World War II in the Pacific Theater. She was one of thirteen PCS vessels converted to a PCS(C) for control of landing craft with the aft 40 mm mount replaced by a small deckhouse.
Service history
Delivered in March 1944 her plank-holding crew reported for duty aboard PCS-1379 at Lido Beach, New York, reporting to Capt. F. R. Lackey, USNR and Lieutenant E. U. O'Donnell USNR, commanding officer.
PCS-1379 transited the Panama Canal to Hawaii before participating in combat. She crossed the equator at 163 deg East, north to south on 23 August 1944.
During the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign she participated in the invasion of Peleliu Island and Angaur Island on 15–17 September 1944. She shelled Japanese targets on Eil Malk and Abappaomogan Islands on 30–31 October 1944.
In the Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign of 1945 she participated in the invasion of the Ryukyu Islands as follows:
PCS-1379 returned to Hawaii, and then back through the Panama Canal, reaching Long Island, NY on or around 15 August 1945.