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PCE-878
Buttress (ACM 4)


Buttress Class Auxiliary Minelayer: Laid down as PCE-878, (date unknown) by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland Oregon; Converted to an Auxiliary Minelayer while building; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS Buttress (ACM 4), 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Disposed of by sale, (date unknown), becoming the mercantile ship Pacific Reefer. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 860 t.; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 6"; Speed 14.6 kts; Complement 363; Armament one 3"/50, four 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, two shafts.


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PCER-878 62k Boardside view of PCE-878 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 March 1944. The sternwheeler steam boat Delta King (YHB-6) can be seen on the left in the background. Darryl L. Baker
PCER-878 84k PCE-878 has just arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 27 Mar 1944. She was in overhaul at the shipyard from 27 March to 26 April 1944. Darryl L. Baker

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