USC&GS Derickson

History
United States
Name:	USC&GS Derickson
Namesake:	Commander Richard B. Derickson, USC&GS
Builder:	Ballard Marine Railway Company
Laid down:	25 April 1943
Launched:	6 November 1943
Commissioned:	17 May 1944
Out of service:	1948
Struck:	28 November 1948
Fate:	Sold, 1954, for $23,896.99 USD
Notes:	Ship International Radio Callsign:NCHW
General characteristics
Class and type:	PCS-1376-class patrol craft sweeper/survey ship
Displacement:	245 tons(light) 338 tons(full)
Length:	136 ft (41 m)
Beam:	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft:	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Propulsion:	2 x 1,000 bhp (750 kW) General Motors 8-268A diesel engines
Speed:	14.1 knots (26.1 km/h; 16.2 mph)
Complement:	57 men
Armament:	20 mm AA gun

USC&GS Derickson was a PCS-1376-class patrol craft sweeper/survey ship in service with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Entering service in 1944, she was out of service by 1948, and sold by 1954.

She was laid down on 25 April 1943, as PCS-1458 by Ballard Marine Railway for the United States Navy, but never actually saw any military service. She was launched on 6 November 1943, and was loaned to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey on 17 May 1944 and commissioned as USC&GS Derickson. Ten days later, she was reclassified as a survey ship by the U.S. Navy. She would serve in this capacity until 1948. Derickson was struck from the Naval Register on 23 November 1948, when she was permanently transferred to the Department of Commerce. In 1954, she was sold for $23,896.99 USD. Her current fate is unknown.

Ship namesake

Commander Richard B. Derickson (1873-1942), USC&GS, rendered distinguished service in field assignments along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States and in the South Pacific Ocean, and had notable achievements as Assistant Chief of the Coast and Geodetic Survey's Hydrographic Division and Director of Coast Surveys in the Philippine Islands.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

External links

• DANFS, Haze Grey, PCS-1458
• NavSource, USC&GS Derickson
• NOAA History, USC&GS DERICKSON
• PC-1458
• ShipScribe-Derickson-class
• Shipbuilding History

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