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HMS Kilkenzie (BEC 8)
ex-PCE-834
PCE-833 was transferred to Great Britain.
PCE-827 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 12 March 1943 as PCE-834 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 19 August 1943; Transferred to Great Britian 20 October 1943 and commissioned HMS Kilkenzie (BEC 8); Laid up in reserve in July 1945 at Sheerness, UK; Returned to U.S. custody 10 December 1946 and sold to Armand Pittman and Company; Struck from the Navy Register in 1947; Sold in 1948 to Giertsen and Co. of Bergen, Norway and converted to a cargo ship; Renamed M/S Nadodd after a Nordic Viking hero. M/S Nadodd sailed in the North Sea and the Medeterrenian until 1952 when it was sold to the Southern Lines Ltd.of the Phillipines at a price of £60,000 pounds and renamed General Wright; Sold in 1967 to the Sweet Line of Philippines and renamed Sweet Sail; Scrapped at Manila, Philippines in April 1978.
Specifications: Displacement 903 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, five single 20mm, 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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M/S Nadodd
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c. 1950
Bergen, Norway
Alf Johan Kristiansen Collection © 2003 |
Hugo C. Lütcherath
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