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PCE-884



PCE-884 call sign:
November - Zulu - Oscar - Sierra


PCE-884 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.



RPS Negros Occidental call sign:
Delta - Uniform - November - Tango
PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 27 October 1944 by the Albina Engineering and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 24 February 1944; Commissioned USS PCE-884, 30 March 1945; Transferred to the Republic of the Philippines as RPS Negros Occidental (PS 29) in July 1948.
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 gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear,
two shafts.

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USS PCE-884
PCE-884 55k Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen John C. Kilman Sr.
Crew member 1946
RPS Negros Occidental (PS 29)
PCE-884 82k c. 1965 Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-884
Letters/Messages Home from the PCE-884
from
Willie Caton "Bill" Culpepper, Radioman 2/c, V6, USN
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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Patrol Craft Sailors Association
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