USS Minah (AMc-204)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS PCS-1465 |
| Ordered | as PC-1465 |
| Reclassified | PCS-1465, 8 April 1943 |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 17 June 1943 |
| Launched | December 1943 |
| Commissioned | 15 February 1944 |
| Renamed | Minah (AMc-204), 10 January 1945 |
| Namesake | the myna bird (variant spelling) |
| Reclassified | AMCU-14, 7 March 1952 |
| Refit | April 1952, New York Naval Shipyard |
| Reclassified | MHC-14, 7 February 1955 |
| Decommissioned | September 1959 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1959 |
| Honors & awards | 1 battle star, World War II |
| Fate | Sold, 8 September 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | PCS-1376-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 280 tons |
| Length | 136 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft 4 in (7.11 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
| Propulsion | Two 1,000bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts. |
| Speed | 14.1 knots (26.1 km/h) |
| Complement | 54 |
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USS PCS-1465 was a PCS-1376-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. Late in the war she was renamed and reclassified Minah (AMc-204), and in the 1950s reclassified first as AMCU-14 and later as MHC-14. Named for the myna under a variant spelling, she was the only U.S. Navy ship of that name.