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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

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 and renamed Ngoc Hoi (HQ-12)

Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 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 15.7 kts.

Complement 99

Armament: One 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, four 20mm mounts, four depth charge projectors, one Hedgehog and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,000bhp General Motors diesel engines (12-567A starboard engine and 12-567B port engine), Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Brattleboro (PCE[R] 852)
	45k	.	Robert Hurst
	108k	.	Bob Goll
	143k	U.S. Navy photo from the April 1958 edition of All Hands magazine	Joe Radigan
RVN Ngoc Hoi (HQ 12)
	68k	.	Robert Hurst
	63k	c. 1965.	-
RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19)
	103k	Seen here as RPS Miguel Malvar (PS 19)	-
	212k	7 July 2012 Celebes Sea Miguel Malvar steams alongside the USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) during a replenishment at sea approach (RASAP) training event. This event is part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2012 Philippines. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Timor Leste joined the exercise for the first time in 2012 U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Gregory A. Harden II	Robert Hurst
	281k	8 July 2012 Celebes Sea BRP Salvador Abcede (PG-114), Miguel Malvar, and BRP IloIlo (PS-32), ex-PCE-897; the coast guard ship PCG Pampanga (SARV-003); and USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) steam together, to mark the conclusion of the at-sea phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines 2012. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Timor Leste joins the exercise for the first time in 2012 U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Gregory A. Harden II
	287k	8 July 2012 Celebes Sea BRP Iloilo (PS-32), the coast guard ship PCG Pampanga (SARV-003), Malvar, BRP Salvador Abcede (PG-114) and USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) on a photo exercise (PHOTOEX). The event marks the conclusion of the at-sea phase of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines 2012. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Timor Leste joined the exercise for the first time in 2012 U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class N. Ross Taylor