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Eunice (PCE 846)
ex-PCE-846
ex-PCE(R)-846

Call sign:
November - Xray - Bravo - Zulu

Eunice served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.

PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 10 August 1943 as PCE(R)-846 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-846; Launched, 20 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-846, 4 March 1944. Went down the Mississippi and on to Bermuda's St. George Harbor. After VE day, escorted German Submarine U-505 on War Bond Tour. Five days each in Norfolk, VA; Washington, DC; Philadelphia, PA and New York City. Then into shipyards for fire control systems, changing single 40mm guns to twin mounts, constructing aerographers shack on boat deck for inflation of radiosonde balloons. Five aerographers added to crew. New assignment was to Sea of Japan to send weather info to fleet command, preparing for invasion of Japan. Named Eunice in February 1956; Struck form the Navy Register 31 March 1978; Transferred to Ecuador 1 August 1978 and renamed Esmeraldes (E 03). 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 and two depth charge rails; Propulsion two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
PCE-846
	71k	20 December 1943 Launching	George Harper
USS PCE-846
	137k	In the Atlantic	George Harper
	79k	In the Pacific	George Harper
	101k	In the Pacific. The twin 40mm mounts were installed at Staten Island, NY for deployment to the Pacific.	George Harper
	114k	In the Pacific. Circling in a 3-mile diameter on rescue/weather patrol.	George Harper
	89k	In the Pacific. Circling in a 3-mile diameter on rescue/weather patrol.	George Harper
	71k	In the Pacific. Retreiving a mail sack dropped from an R5D aircraft.	George Harper
	112k	Rescue practice with the whale boat.	George Harper
	104k	Rescue practice with the whale boat.	George Harper
	101k	Rescue practice with the whale boat.	George Harper
	82k	Rescue practice with the whale boat.	George Harper
	89k	One on duty and three loafers.	George Harper
	70k	San Francisco Bay Shows the special shack on the boat deck for inflation of the radiosonde balloons.	George Harper
	61k	c. 1951 New Orleans, LA	Lynna Kay Shuffield
	100k	c. 1952/1953	Warren R. Black
Esmeraldes (E 03)
	50k	c. 1965	Robert Hurst