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Banning (PCE 886)
ex-PCE(C)-886
ex-PCE-886



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Peter - Mike
PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 29 March 1944 by the Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, OR; Launched, 10 July 1944; Commissioned USS PCE-886, 31 May 1945; Reclassified as a Control Escort, PCE(C)-886; Named Banning 15 February 1956; Reclassified back to a Patrol Craft Escort, PCE-886; Decommissioned in 1950 and placed in reserve at Columbia River, OR. 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 2,000bhp General Motors 12-578A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS PCE(C)-886
PCE-886 131k Seen here as PCEC-886 E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228
PCE-886 65k Seen here as PCEC-886 E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228
USS Banning (PCE 886)
Banning 111k Visitors begin a conducted tour of Banning at Hood River, OR DANFS
There is no DANFS history available for PCE-886
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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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