USS PCS-1450 in San Francisco Bay, California, c. 1945-46
History
United States Navy
Name	USS PC-1450
Builder	Burger Boat Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Laid down	16 February 1943
Renamed	USS PCS-1450, April 1943
Reclassified	Patrol craft sweeper (PCS), April 1943
Launched	14 August 1943
Acquired	January 1944 (delivered)
Commissioned	3 February 1944
Decommissioned	August 1946
Stricken	February 1947
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey August 1946
History
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Name	USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26)
Namesake	Commander Carey V. Hodgson (1880–1929), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps officer
Acquired	August 1946
Fate	Sold 1967
General characteristics
Class and type	PCS-1376-class minesweeper
Displacement	320 t.
Length	136 ft (41 m)
Beam	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Draft	8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Propulsion	2 × 880 bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed	14.1 knots (26.1 km/h)
Complement	57
Armament	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount 1 × 20 mm gun mount 4 × depth charge projectors 4 × Hedgehog 2 × depth charge tracks

USS PCS-1450, ex-PC-1450, was a United States Navy minesweeper in commission from 1944 to 1946. She saw service in the latter stages of World War II.

After her Navy service, PCS-1450 was transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, where she saw service as the coastal survey ship USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26) from 1946 to 1967.

Construction and commissioning

The ship was laid down as PC-1450 on 16 February 1943 by the Burger Boat Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Reclassified as a "patrol craft sweeper" (PCS) in April 1943 and redesignated PCS-1450, she was launched on 14 August 1943 and commissioned as USS PCS-1450 on 3 February 1944.^[1]

United States Navy service

PCS-1450 made a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea, then operated between Key West, Florida, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a patrol and escort ship until June 1945. She then was transferred to the Hawaiian Islands, where she served from late July 1945 until February 1946 before returning to the United States.^[1]

After undergoing conversion into a survey ship, PCS-1450 was decommissioned in August 1946 and transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey the same month. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in February 1947.^[1]

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service

The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey commissioned the vessel in August 1946 as the coastal survey ship USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26). Hodgson served on hydrographic survey duties along the United States West Coast and in Alaska until 1967, when she was decommissioned and sold.^[1][2]