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HMS Kilchatten (BEC 3)
ex-PCE-829


PCE-829 was transferred to Great Britain.
PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 7 December 1942 as PCE-829 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 27 May 1943; Transferred to Great Britian 16 August 1943 and commissioned HMS Kilchatten (Z 03); Reclassified BEC-3; Returned to U.S. Navy in December 1946; Struck from the Navy Register in 1947; Sold to Norway, converted to a passenger ferry and renamed Stavanger; Sold to Finland and renamed Kong Sverre; Renamed Capri Corne; Scrapped in Finland.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 180' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 15k; Complement 100; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear,
two shafts.

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Kilchatten 35k c. 1943.
HMS Kilchatten (BEC 3)		 J. Irish
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-829
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