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PCE(R)-859



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Item - Peter
PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue):: Laid down, 14 January 1944 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched, 28 November 1944; Delivered in January 1945; Commissioned 10 March 1945. 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 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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