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Skowhegan (PCE 843)
ex-PCE-843
ex-PCE(R)-843



Call sign:
November - Xray - Mike - Papa
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: 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, LA; Decommissioned in March 1955 at Boston, MA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston; Named Skowhegan 15 February 1956; Struck form the Navy 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.

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Skowhegan 94k In port following World War II.
Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977.
U.S. Navy photo NH 85417		 Naval Historical Center
Skowhegan 73k c. 1959
South Boston Naval Annex
Skowhegan (PCE-843) outboard of Groton (PCE-900)		 ©Richard Leonhardt
View the Skowhegan (PCE-843)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret., PC-793
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