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Parris Island (AG 72)
ex-PCE-901

Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Fox - Xray

PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort/Miscellaneous Auxiliary:

Laid down 10 May 1943 as PCE-901 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR

Launched 8 July 1943

Reclassified as a Miscellaneous Auxiliary and named Parris Island (AG 72), 28 April 1944

Commissioned USS Parris Island (AG 72), 30 October 1944

Decommissioned 19 June 1947

Struck from the Naval Register 1 August 1947

Transferred to the Maritime Commission 20 January 1948, sold to a Honduran Registry retained name and served as the M/V Parris Island into 1970

Scrapped in 1990.

Specifications:

Displacement 850 t.

Length 184' 6"

Beam 33'

Draft 9'

Speed 15.7 kts.

Complement 110

Armament: Four single 20mm gun mounts

Propulsion: Two 900shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
Parris Island (AG 72)
	113k	25 October 1944 Photographed by her builder, the Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon National Archives photos 19-N-74945, 19-N-74959 and 19-N-74965 from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst
	80k
	129k
USS Parris Island (AG 72)
	203k	National Archives photo USN 1044001		Mike Green Photo added 12 December 2019
	185k	17 November 1944 Photographed by her builder, the Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon National Archives photo 19-N-74949 from Shipscribe.com
	205k	Seen in a West Coast port from USS Hughes [DD 410], late in 1945 Photo by C. Bradley	John Chiquoine
MV Parris Island
	129k	19 August 1990 Partially sunk near a scrap yard in the Elizabeth River, Virginia Photo courtesy of Christopher P. Cavas from Shipscribe.com	Robert Hurst