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HMS Kildwick (BEC 6)
ex-PCE-832


PCE-832 was transferred to Great Britain.
PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 5 February 1943 as PCE-832 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 10 July 1943; Transferred to Great Britian 27 September 1943 and commissioned HMS Kildwick (Z 06); Redesignated BEC-6; Returned to U.S. Navy custody in December 1946; Struck from the Navy Register in 1947 and sold to Fager Lines of Norway; Converted to a passenger boat in 1949 and renamed M/S Sunnfjord; Operated on the Norwegian west coast until 1974; Laid up in June 1973 at Bergen, Norway; Sold to Finland in 1978 and renamed Sunnfjord II; Sold to a company in Oslo, Norway and sank while being delivered to her new owners in October 1983.

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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