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Pascagoula (PCE 874)
ex-PCE-874



Call sign:
November - Yankee - India - Juliet


Pascagoula served the Navies of the United States and Ecuador.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 1 March 1943 at Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 11 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-874, 31 December 1943; Decommissioned 25 November 1946 at New Orleans, LA and placed in service the same day as a naval reserve training ship; Named Pascagoula, 15 February 1956; Placed out of service and struck from the Navy Register 1 May 1959; Transferred on loan under the Military Assistance Program to Ecuador 5 December 1960 as Manabi (E-02); Struck from Ecuadorian Navy list in 1970. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 850 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7 kts.; Complement 99; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose mount, three twin 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PCE-874 128k c. 1953
Docking at NAS Corpus Christi, TX.		 Harry Kalbach
PCE-874 124k c. December 1955
Post card of PCE-874 entering the harbor at Havana, Cuba.		 Orson Rathburn, Jr.
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, Ph.D., USNR, Ret. PC-793
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