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Havre (PCE 877)
ex-PCE(C)-877
ex-PCE-877



Call sign:
November - Xray - November - Charlie
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 6 May 1943 at Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; Launched, 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-877, 14 February 1944; Reclassified as an Amphibious Control Vessel, PCE(C)-877, 20 August 1945; Assigned as Naval Reserve Training Ship for 9th Naval District in April 1954; Reclassified PCE-877, 27 October 1955; Named Havre 15 February 1956. Served with U.S. Naval Reserves, Chicago District, from April 1954 through 1970. Struck from the Navy list 1 July 1970. 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 twin 40mm gun mounts, five 20mm mounts, four dcp, one dcp (hh), and two dct; Propulsion two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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Havre 75k . Bob Daly/PC-1181
Havre 76k . Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Havre 26k c. 1967
St. Joseph River.
Photo © The Herald-Palladium, St. Joseph-Benton Harbor, Michigan
Submitted with permission of The Herald-Palladium		 CDR Philip J. Jordan, USCGR, Ret.
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DANFS History Entry
Located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
"PC Patrol Craft of World War II"
by William J. Veigele, PhD, USNR, Ret. PC-793
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