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Groton (PCE-900)
ex-PCE-900



Call sign:
November - Xray - Golf - Whiskey
PCE-842 Class Patrol Craft Escort: Laid down 11 January 1943 at Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland Oregon; Launched 11 August 1943; Commissioned USS PCE-900, 12 April 1944; Decommissioned 19 August 1955; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Named Groton 15 February 1956; Struck from the Navy Register 1 February 1960; Sold for scrap.

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 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PCE-900 45k Entering Pearl Harbor. c. 1946/1947. Charles W. Okonski
via David Okonski
PCE-900 75k Boston © Richard Leonhardt
PCE-900 118k Boston © Richard Leonhardt
Groton 73k Groton (PCE-900) inboard of Skowhegen (PCE-843)
South Boston Naval Annex, 1959		 © Richard Leonhardt
PCE-900 131k Boston © Richard Leonhardt
View the Groton (PCE-900)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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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