U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC
29)PCE 842 PATROL CRAFT ESC
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Originally planned as PC 842 but reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), PCE(R)-842
Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-842, 28 March 1943
Laid down 12 June 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Illinois
Reclassified back to PCE (R) 842, 19 June 1943
Reclassified back to PCE 842, 15 July 1943
Launched 14 November 1943
Commissioned PC 842 29 January 1944 at New Orleans, LouisianaPlaced in service in August 1947 as a Naval Reserve Training vessel assigned to the 8th Naval District (New Orleans)
Decommissioned 7 November 1947 at New Orleans
Placed out of service 17 August 1955 at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group
Named Marfa 15 February 1956
Struck from the Naval Register 1 June 1961
Transferred to South Korea 18 December 1961 under the Military Assistance Program and renamed Tang Po (PCE-56)
Sunk by North Korean shore battery fire north of the demarcation line 19 January 1967.
Specifications
Displacement 850 t.
Length 184' 6".
Beam 33' 1".
Draft 9' 5
Speed 15.7 kts.
Complement 99.
Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog).
Propulsion 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
After shakedown along the coast of Florida, PCE--842 departed Key West 15 March 1944 for convoy escort duty under the 4th Fleet out of Trinidad, British West Indies. She reached Teteron Bay 20 March and on the 31st sailed on her initial escort run. For the next 6 months, PCE-842 guarded convoys between Trinidad and Recife, Brazil, conducting intensive antisubmarine training between escort voyages. Until early December. On 11 December 1944, she arrived in
