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PCE-869
Call sign:
November - Zulu - Kilo - November
PCE-869 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 2 September 1942 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 6 February 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-869, 19 September 1943; Transferred to the Republic of China in February 1946 as Yun Hsin (PCE 42). While anchored off the coast of Shian-Hai, Taiwan on 1 May 1949 three communist crew members intent on hijacking the ship, killed the commanding officer, Captain Lu Wei-Yuen. Their attempt to hijack the ship failed and they were locked in a cabin. When the ship arrived at Shian-Hai the police came aboard and injected gas into the cabin, killing all the traitors. The ship was renamed and reclassified Wei Yuan (PCE 68) in August 1949 in honor of Captain Lu. During the 1958 war in "Kim Men" (Taiwan Strait crisis) the ship was declared a "Hero Ship." Decommissioned 1 July 1971; Struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1972. 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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Yun Hsin (PCE 42)
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