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PCE-868
Call sign:
November - Yankee - Alpha - Juliet
PCE-868 served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 11 August 1942 at Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 29 January 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-868, 31 August 1943. After completing her fitting out at the builder's yard on 15 September, she moved over the degaussing and deperming crib. She then loaded on supplies and reported to CinCPac for underway and sound training on 18 September. Upon completion of her shakedown, she was retained on temporary duty as a training vessel on 21 October. Following this duty, she was assigned to ServRon 2 for duty. On 31 May 1944, she entered Pearl Harbor, her home port. From Pearl Harbor, she escorted ships throughout the Pacific. PCE-868, (aka "Hell's Hinges"), changed home ports to Guam on 25 June 1946. Her duties during this time in the Pacific included plane guard and weather ship duties. Following the war, she returned to the United States and decommissioned on 29 October 1947 at Norfolk, VA. She was then turned over to the Mexican Government, named ARM Virgilio Uribe (C 11), and struck from the Navy Register on 5 December 1947; Reclassified PO-121. 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, three single 40mm gun mounts, five single 20mm guns, two dct, four dcp, two dcp (hh); Propulsion two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
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by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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