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Marysville (EPCE[R] 857)
ex-PCE(R)-857



Call sign:
November - Kilo - Papa - Uniform
PCER-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down, 21 December 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 4 May 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-857, 26 April 1945; Reclassified as an Experimental Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue), EPCE(R)-857, 22 March 1947; Named Marysville,15 February 1950. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, four 20mm mounts, four dcp, one Hedge Hog and two dct; Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCE(R) 857
PCE(R)-857 57k PCE(R)-855 approaching PCE(R)-857 at San Diego, 15 February 1946 EM3 James Rowan
via his grandson Rick Rowan
USS Marysville (EPCE[R] 857)
PCE(R)-857 264k c. 1958
Entering San Francisco Golden Gate.
Photo by Allied Photographers of San Francisco, CA		 Robert M. Cieri
PCE(R)-857 61k U.S. Navy photo from the September 1964 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
View the Marysville (PCE(R) 857)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site
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