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USCGC Lamar (WTR 899)
ex-USS Lamar (PCE-899)
ex-PCE-899
Call sign:
November - Yankee - Hotel - Mike
Lamar served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 11 January 1943 at Williamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; Launched 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-899, 17 March 1945; Decommissioned 16 December 1949 at Philadelphia, PA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned 13 December 1950 at Milwaukee, WI and assigned as a Naval Reserve training vessel; Named Lamar, 15 February 1956; Decommissioned 28 May 1964 at Philadelphia; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck form the Naval Register in June 1964; Transferred to the Coast Guard 29 July 1964; Commissioned USCGC Lamar (WTR-899), 11 September 1965; Decommissioned 30 September 1969; Sold for scrap 8 November 1971 to the Foison Industries Corp. of Taiwan for $23,300.
Specifications: Displacement 640 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 8"; Speed 16k; Complement 99; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three single 40mm gun mounts, five single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one depth charge projector (hedgehog); Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.
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View the Lamar (PCE-899)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
View the USCGC Lamar (WTR-899)
Coast Guard History entry located on the Coast Guard Cutter History Web Site.
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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