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PCE-847



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Delta - Sierra

ex-PCE(R)-847


PCE-847 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down as Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), PCE(R)-847, 24 August 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-847; Launched, 27 December 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-847, 18 March 1944; Sold to Mexico in 1947 as David Porter (H 02). Fate unknown.

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 gun mount, three single 40mm gun mounts, five single 20mm guns, 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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USS PCE-847
PCE-847 20k - Hyperwar U.S. Navy in WW II
ARM David Porter (H 02)
PCE-847 128k c. October 1984
Veracruz, Mexico		 Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus
Frankfurt a.M., Germany
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-847
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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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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