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Somerset (PCE 892)
ex-PCE-892
ex-PCEC-892
ex-PCE-892

Call sign:
November - Xray - Lima - Victor

PCE-892 served the Navies of the United States and South Korea.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort:

Laid down 28 October 1942 at Williamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon

Launched 1 May 1943

Commissioned USS PCE-892, 8 July 1944

Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, PCEC-892, 20 August 1945

Reclassified back to a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-892, 15 October 1945

Decommissioned in October 1947 at New Orleans, LA and placed in service as a Naval Reserve training ship assigned to the 8th Naval District (New Orleans)

Named Somerset 15 February 1955

Placed out of service in March 1955 and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet

Struck form the Naval Register 1 June 1961

Transferred 13 December 1961 on loan under the Military Assistance Program to South Korea and renamed Ryul Po (PCE 58)

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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USS PCE-892
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ROKN Ryul Po (PCE-58)
	135k	U.S. Navy photo	Joe Radigan