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Namesake |
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Builder | Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation, Whitestone, New York |
Laid down | 15 May 1943 |
Launched | 28 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 4 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 27 April 1956 |
Renamed | USS Hampton (PCS-1386) 15 February 1956 |
Stricken | 1 July 1959 |
Fate | Sold |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol craft sweeper |
Displacement | 251 tons |
Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | Two 800-brake horsepower (597-kilowatt) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear two shafts |
Speed | 14 knots |
Complement | 59 |
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USS PCS-1386, later renamed USS Hampton (PCS-1386), was a United States Navy patrol craft sweeper - a type of patrol minesweeper - in commission from 1944 to 1956. When renamed, she became the third U.S. Navy ship to bear the name Hampton.