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Crestview (PCE 895)
ex-PCE-895



Call sign:
November - Xray - Kilo - Foxtrot


Crestview served the Navies of the United States, South Vietnam and the Philippines.
PCE-881 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down, 2 December 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; Launched, 18 May 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-895, 30 October 1944; Named Crestview, 15 February 1956; Transferred to South Vietnam, 29 November 1961 as Dong Da II (HQ 07); Escaped to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed RPS Sultan Kudarat (PS 22). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9'; Speed 15.7 k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three twin 40mm gun mounts, two dct, four dcp, one dcp (hh); Propulsion two 2,000shp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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for full size image		 Size Image Description Source
USS PCE-895
PCE-895 117k . David Buell
PCE-894 94k 28 September 1945
Mare Island Navy Yard
PCE-894 incline tests. The bows of PCE-895 and PCE-896 are visible in
the background.
U.S. Navy photo 4528-45		 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Public Affairs Office
PCE-895 47k U.S. Navy photo from the July 1953 edition of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
PCE-895 109k Christmas card from the 1955 edition of "Our Navy" magazine Arthur Gendreau
PCE-895 53k c. 1955-1956
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada		 Arthur Gendreau
RVN Dong DA II (HQ 07)
PCE-895 77k c. 1963. Robert Hurst
PCE-895 103k c. 1965
Nha Be, South Vietnam
Dong Da II alongside RVN Hau Giang (HQ 04), ex-LSM-276.		 © Richard Leonhardt
LSM-276/PCE-895 58k c. 1965.
Nha Be, South Vietnam
Dong Da II alongside RVN Hau Giang (HQ 04), ex-LSM-276.		 © Richard Leonhardt
BRP Sulan Kudarat (PS 22)
PCE-895 80k c. 1989
Conducting sea trials off Subic Bay, Philippines.		 Jose Antonio Layos, Jr. Engineering Officer
There is no DANFS history available for Crestview (PCE 895)
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