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PCE-881


PCE-881 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



Call sign for RPS Cebu:
Delta - Uniform - Oscar - Alpha
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 11 August 1943 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 10 November 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-881, 31 July 1944; Transferred to the Philippines in July 1948 as RPS Cebu (PS 28); Struck form the Navy Register in 1975.
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, four single 20mm guns, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-567A diesels engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCE-881
PCE-881 40k . Robert Hurst
RPS Cebu (PS 28)
Cebu 72k c. 1971.
Philippine Navy Photo		 Jane's Fighting Ships
PCE-881 135k . Joe Radigan
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-881.
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