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PCE-893



Call sign:
Nan - Zebra - Queen - George


PCE-893 served the Navies of the United States and Cuba.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 27 October 1942 by the Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched, 8 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-893, 25 July 1944; Transferred to Cuba 20 November 1947 as Siboney (H 101); Reclassified PE-302. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 860 t; Length 184'; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.5k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50, two twin 40mm, two 20mm, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PCE-893
PCE-893 110k Builders photo, 21 July 1944.
U.S. Navy photo NH 96487		 Naval Historical Center
PCE-893 87k Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken circa July 1944.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1978.
U.S. Navy photo NH 86714		 Naval Historical Center
Siboney (H 101)
PCE-893 46k c. 1951 Robert Hurst
There is no DANFS History currently available for PCE-893
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
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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