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Brattleboro (EPCE[R] 852)
ex-PCE(R)-852



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Foxtrot - Bravo

Brattleboro served the Navies of the United States, South Vietnam and the Philippines.

PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down, 28 October 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 1 March 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-852, 26 May 1944 at New Orleans, LA; Named Brattleboro 15 February 1956; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), EPCE(R)-852 in 1946; Named Brattleboro 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 1 November 1965 at Philadelphia, PA and struck from the Navy list; Transferred to South Vietnam 11 July 1966 as Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12); Escaped to the Philippines after the fall of South Vietnam; Renamed RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one dual purpose 3"/50 gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, four 20mm mounts, four dcp, one Hedge Hog and two dct; Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors diesel engines (12-567A starboard engine and 12-567B port engine), Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Brattleboro (PCE[R] 852)
PCER-852 45k . Robert Hurst
PCER-852 108k . Bob Goll
PCER-852 143k U.S. Navy photo from the April 1958 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
RVN Ngoc Hoi (HQ 12)
PCER-852 68k . Robert Hirst
PCER-852 63k c. 1965. -
RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19)
PCER-853 103k Seen here as RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19) -
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PCE(R)-852 Website
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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