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PCE(R)-859



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Item - Peter

ex-PCE-859

PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue):

  • Originally planned as PCE-859 but reclassified PCE(R)-859 in June 1943
  • Laid down 14 January 1944 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL
  • Launched 28 November 1944
  • Commissioned 10 March 1945
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 12 June 1947 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 640 t.
  • Length 180' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 8"
  • Speed 15 kts.
  • Complement 100
  • Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, and two depth charge projectors (hedgehogs)
  • Propulsion: Two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
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