USS John Blish
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USS John Blish was a Patrol Craft Sweeper (PCS) of the PCS-1376-Class, five of which were converted to small hydrographic survey vessels designated AGS and later coastal survey vessels, AGSc, that conducted hydrographic surveys for the United States Navy during and immediately after the Second World War.[note 1] The small PCS type vessels assigned to the United States Navy Hydrographic Office missions conducted pre invasion surveys, sometimes under fire, with the survey crews erecting signals for survey and later navigation, laying buoys and placing lights.
John Blish in the Yangtze river, China, December 1945. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name |
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Namesake | Commander John Bell Blish, USN |
Builder | Ballard Marine Railway Co., Seattle, Washington |
Laid down | 23 May 1943 |
Launched | 6 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 26 February 1944 |
Decommissioned | 22 August 1949 |
Fate | Sold 10 February 1950 to Boston Metals Co. of Baltimore for scrap |
Notes | Ship International Radio Callsign: NTYX |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PCS-1376 Patrol Coastal Sweeper |
Displacement | 245 t. (light), 338 t. (full) |
Length | 136 feet |
Beam | 24 feet 6 inches |
Draft | 8 feet 7 inches |
Propulsion | Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines |
Speed | 14,1 knots |
Complement | 57 |
Armament | One 3 in (76 mm) Dual Purpose Mount, one single 20 mm AA mount |
Aircraft carried | None |
Aviation facilities | None |
Originally, PCS-1457 the survey vessel, conducted surveys supporting the Mariana Islands campaign, the landings at Iwo Jima the ship was renamed and redesignated John Blish (AGS-10) before conducting surveys supporting the landings at Okinawa. After the war John Blish was redesignated at a coastal survey ship, AGSc, conducting surveys off the United States West Coast until decommissioned at New York on 22 August 1949.