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PCE-844
ex-PCE(R)-844



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Baker - Uncle


PCE-844 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Escort: Laid down as Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), PCER-844, 8 July 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-844; Launched, 1 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-844, 18 February 1944; Sold to the Mexican Navy in 1947 as ARM Pedro Sainz De Barandas (PO 123). 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 40 mm mounts; Propulsion two 1,800 shp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCE-844
PCE-844 173k c. 1945
Philippines		 George M. French
PCE-844 98k c. 1945
Philippines		 George M. French
ARM Pedro Sainz De Barandas (PO 123)
PCE-844 55k c. 1950 Robert Hurst
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