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Whitehall (PCE 856)
ex-PCE(R)-856



Call sign:
November - Yankee - Foxtrot - Papa
PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down, 17 December 1943 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill; Launched, 21 April 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-856, 11 November 1944; Decommissioned 23 June 1946 at Norfolk, VA; Recommissioned, 18 November 1950; Named Whitehall, 15 February 1956; Reclassified as a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-856, 15 March 1962; Decommissioned, 1 July 1970 at Philadelphia, PA and struck from the Naval Register; Reportedly sold for scrap, 17 May 1973 to the R. W. Denny Corp. of Montvale, NJ, but in fact sold in 1970 to Eastern Seaboard Pile-Driving, Montvale and renamed Donna Marie; Converted to a tug in 1974; Sold in 1980 to Standard Products Co. Inc. of Reedsville, VA and renamed Atlantic Surf; Sold to Omega Protein Inc. of Hammond, LA and renamed Atlantic Shore. 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 single 40mm gun mounts, two dct, two dcp; Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCE(R)-856
Whitehall 65k 30 November 1944
Bureau of Ships photo from Allied Escort Ships of World War II by Peter Elliott		 Krlicbegovic Edib
Bosnia & Hercegovina
USS Whitehall (PCE 856)
Whitehall 53k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Whitehall 135k c. spring 1962 Ed Zajkowski
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