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30)PCE 843 PATROL CRAFT ESC

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Laid down as Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), PCE (R) 843, 25 June 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago IL

Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE 843

Launched 24 November 1943

Commissioned USS PCE-843, 30 January 1944 at New Orleans, LAPlaced in service as a Naval Reserve Training vessel in January 1947 and assigned to the 1st Naval District (Boston)

Decommissioned in March 1955 at Boston, MA and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston

Named Skowhegan 15 February 1956

Struck from the Naval Register in July 1960

Sold in 1961

Fate unknown.

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.

On 20 March 1944, PCE-843 completed shakedown out of Miami, Fla. The next day she departed Miami for Trinidad, B.W.I., and convoy duty with the 4th Fleet. She escorted shipping between Trinidad and Recife, Brazil until early December. On 11 December 1944, she arrived in Key West, Fla., for an overhaul to prepare for duty in the Pacific.

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