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Worland (PCE-845)
ex-PCE(R)-845
Call sign:
November - Uniform - Yankee - Bravo
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 24 July 1943 as PCE(R)-845 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Reclassified PCE-845; Launched 13 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-845, 1 March 1944 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned, 22 December 1947 at Galveston, TX; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group; Recommissioned, 11 December 1950 at Chicago IL; Named Worland 15 February 1956; Decommissioned, 25 May 1964 at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group; Struck form the Navy Register 1 June 1964; Acquired by the State of North Carolina, Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, NC, 6 August 1964 and renamed R/V Advance II; Sold in 1980 to the Standard Products Co., Inc., Wilmington; Donated to the North Carolina Department of Fisheries and sunk in 1994 off Kitty Hawk as part of their artificial
reef program.
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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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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