Allied Warships

USS PCS-1378 (PCS-1378)

Patrol craft of the PCS-1376 class

NavyThe US Navy
TypePatrol craft
ClassPCS-1376 
PennantPCS-1378 
Built byWheeler Shipbuilding Corp. (Whitestone, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered16 Nov 1942 
Laid down13 Feb 1943 
Launched18 Dec 1943 
Commissioned9 Feb 1944 
End service14 May 1954 
History

Decommissioned in March 1946
Recommissioned in January 1952
Decommissioned on 14 May 1954
Stricken on 5 September 1957
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 15 April 1958

 

Commands listed for USS PCS-1378 (PCS-1378)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.(jg) Leonard E Burger, USNR9 Feb 19441944
2Harlan Trott, USNR1944Early 1945
3F E Griner, USNREarly 1945Mid/late45
4Ensign Herbert G Bailey, Jr., USNRMid/late45Late 1945

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Notable events involving PCS-1378 include:


31 Jul 1944
USS Escolar (T/Cdr. W.J. Millican, USN) conducted exercises off Key West with the destroyer USS Dahlgren (Lt.Cdr. R.E. Lapides, USNR) and the patrol vessels USS PCS-1378 (Lt.(jg) L.E. Burger, USNR) and USS PCS-1426 (Lt. J. Rabun, USNR).


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